{"id":3303,"date":"2024-02-23T16:50:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T16:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3303"},"modified":"2024-02-23T16:50:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T16:50:58","slug":"npp-primaries-im-bitter-because-some-mps-i-helped-insulted-me-kennedy-agyapong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3303","title":{"rendered":"NPP Primaries: I\u2019m Bitter Because Some MPs I Helped Insulted Me \u2013 Kennedy Agyapong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Member of Parliament for the Assin Central constituency and NPP presidential aspirant,\u00a0Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, has opened up about the kind of treatment that he endured from his colleague MPs during the party\u2019s presidential primaries.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a yet-to-be-aired interview with KSM, Kennedy Agyapong underscored the independence of MPs to vote for their preferred candidate in the primaries but expressed certain hurt over the \u201cinsults\u201d he endured from fellow MPs, especially those he considered close friends and whom he had supported financially in their parliamentary campaigns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is not every MP who didn\u2019t vote for me that I am angry at, no, everybody has a choice. But the very people who were my friends that I have helped to bring them to Parliament.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He insisted that the betrayal, combined with the personal insults, motivated his resentment, not the Vice President\u2019s victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s not the betrayal, but the bad things they said about me, that is where I have the problem. So who says I\u2019m not bitter? I am bitter, I am not because the vice president won, I am bitter because of the people that I have helped. If you are not going to vote for me, no problem, but the insults. I can\u2019t forgive them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the NPP Presidential Primaries last year, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong garnered 71,996 votes, accounting for 37.41%, while Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia secured 118,210 votes, accounting for 61.47%, making him the party\u2019s flagbearer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Responding to whether he will accept an offer to partner with Dr. Bawumia ahead of the December 7 elections, the outspoken MP said, \u201cNo, I wouldn\u2019t do it. To tell you the truth, why I cannot be a vice president is that I will speak my mind and I am not going to be a mate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-672e268b130c162bad3cf9912c594b18 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i-WzKpUc3-Q?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Member of Parliament for the Assin Central constituency and NPP presidential aspirant,\u00a0Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, has opened up about the kind of treatment that he endured from his colleague MPs during the party\u2019s presidential primaries. 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