[ 2014-04-18 ]

Kufuor has no favourite in NPP race – Frank Agyekum
Former President John Kufuor supports no faction
in the main opposition New Patriotic Party nor
does he support any of those vying for the
flagbearer slot, his Spokesperson Frank Agyekum
has said.

According to him, Mr Kufuor will back whoever
emerges winner of the flagbearership race after
the party’s presidential primaries.

The NPP is perceived to be split between two
factions – Kufuor/Alan group and the Akufo-Addo
group. Mr Kufuor is perceived to be Alan
Kyeremanten’s mentor and has allegedly, tacitly,
supported the former trade minister’s
flagbearership bid since 2007.

A recent overhaul of the entire national
leadership of the NPP brought to surface, once
again, the perceived division in the party. The
newly elected Chairman and General Secretary, Paul
Afoko and Kwabena Agyepong, are both perceived to
be pro-Alan persons.

They defeated incumbents Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey and
Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie who are both perceived to be
pro-Akufo-Addo persons.

Hours after the party’s national elections, Mr
Kyeremanten was quoted by the Daily Graphic to
have said the overhaul in leadership signaled the
coming change in leadership at the flagbearer
level.

The former Ambassador to the US also told Paul
Adom Otchere on Metro TV’s Good Evening Ghana
programme on Tuesday that the party needed to do
serious soul-searching and be bold to interrogate
why it lost two consecutive general elections,
which in his opinion, should have been a walk in
the park for the NPP.

In his opinion, the party cannot achieve different
results without doing things differently.

In that same interview, Mr Kyeremanten rebuffed
claims that former President John Kufuor has,
since 2007, attempted ‘coronating’ him as
flagbearer of the of New Patriotic Party.

“…It has nothing to do with President Kufuor
trying to bestow or have a coronation process for
me right from the beginning, now or for the
future.”

Mr Kyeremanten’s comments courted salvos from a
staunch Danquah-Busia-Dombo intellectual, Dr Kwame
Okoampa-Ahoofe, who wrote in an article that Mr
Kyeremanten cannot reap from where he didn’t
sow.


Dr Ahoofe said: “In sum, a brazen political AWOL
like Mr. Kyerematen cannot so cavalierly presume
to be smarter than the rest of his party
colleagues and associates.”


“This is the one case in which the baboon has
absolutely no right to enjoy the sweat and toil of
the monkey”, he added.


According to him, ‘had he any remarkable sense
of shame or dignity’, the former Ambassador,
whom he tagged as “Quitman” Kyerematen, would
not be advising the leaders of the NPP to do any
introspection.


Dr Ahoofe said: “Mr. Kyerematen has every right
to presume his faction of NPP supporters and
sympathisers to be entirely composed of twerps and
clinical idiots. Unfortunately, the rest of us
forward-looking Danquah-Busia-Dombo scions do not
have that luxury.”

The internal sparring notwithstanding, Mr Frank
Agyekum told Asempa FM’s afternoon political
programme, Ekosii sen that Mr Kufuor is not
backing any of the perceived factions in the party
nor is he backing any of the flagbearer hopefuls.

Source - Radio XYZ

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