Arthur Kennedy, a prominent member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), asserts that former Ghanaian President John Agyekum Kufour’s inaction against the alleged Akyem dominance within the party amounts to a failure on his part.
Kennedy contends that Kufour possessed the authority to counter this perceived takeover but opted not to, a decision that he finds deeply troubling.
To him, Kufour should have spent his political capital fighting to save the NPP from the control of the Akyems.
“Talking about Kufour, I’ve always liked him. Very personable, very fine gentleman. But in his post-presidential years, he let the NPP down. I think that a lot of things, including taking over the party and extra constitutional things that the Kyebi mafia has done, like sacking Afoko, Kwabena Agyepong,.
The person who could have stopped that was Kufour, who refused to spend his political capital doing that. I say this because he is a very nice person, and I say that because he could have prevented a lot of these things from happening. Having said that, his abandonment of Alan might be based on the conviction that Bawumia is a better candidate,” he said.