Kennedy Agyapong, a member of parliament for Assin Central, has explained how the New Patriotic Party (NPP) managed to defeat all odds and win the 2016 presidential election.
He claimed that, in contrast to the National Democratic Congress (NDC), which was in power at the time, the NPP was having trouble raising money for elections and for voter gifts.
He charged that John Dramani Mahama, who was in office at the time, had given away brand-new automobiles, including some to chiefs, while the NPP was operating with used trucks.
Speaking to a few party delegates in Tema as part of his bid to lead the NPP in the elections of 2024, he said.
“Money can solve issues but not all issues because if it was all about money Akufo-Addo wouldn’t have become president because Mahama distributed brand new cars till chiefs also benefitted.
“At the time, we were struggling with used pickups, salt, gari, maggi cube, second-hand clothes was what we used to unseat Mahama,” he said warning his own party: “but politicians don’t learn. They don’t learn.”
Agyapong, a known financier of the NPP has serially boasted about how much monetary contributions he has made to the party since he joined in the early 90s. He has spoken about buying hundreds of vehicles for the party and even paying for an entire congress when the party sought to decentralize voting to elect a flagbearer.