If the flagbearership ever lands in Kennedy Agyapong’s lap, the other contenders, Dr. Adutwum, Dr. Bryan Acheampong, and Engr. Kwabena Agyepong won’t need political analysts to explain what went wrong, that giving Kennedy Agyapong the flagbearer slot Is a “Political Suicide Note” for the NPP. They will simply watch, in real time, how a man who thrives on chaos turns an internal contest into a full-scale circus. And they would quickly realise the political cost of empowering someone whose track record consistently destabilises the very structures meant to hold the party together. Their regret will not be philosophical; it will be practical, obvious, and painfully avoidable of looming regret. But that’s
when self-interest becomes flagbearership.

Let’s be honest: the NPP’s internal disagreements were never the apocalypse. Every human institution including religious communities faces occasional tension, from political parties to church choirs has drama. But the real turbulence began the moment the quarrisome Kennedy Agyapong shoved himself into the flagbearer race, dragging along his trademark quarrels, grievances, and loudspeaker politics. He didn’t enter as a unifier; he entered like someone auditioning for chief provocateur. As long as he remains within the party’s strategic space, genuine cohesion will always be difficult.

And somehow, despite benefiting more from NPP governance than any single individual in recent memory, running over twenty companies that conveniently found their way into government opportunities through a familiar network of friends and relatives, Kennedy Agyapong still presents himself as the patron saint of political purity. The irony alone could power a whole national grid.

This is the same man who attacked party members for seeking access to the very procurement space he practically monopolized. Yet today, the contract King who now pretends to be a saint, performs indignation as though he spent the last eight years living in a monastery, not boardrooms buzzing with state contracts. And after accumulating benefits unmatched by any contemporary businessman within the party, he now positions himself as a moral authority, speaking as though his hands were impossibly clean.

From beneficiary to bomb-thrower: Kennedy Agyapong hasn’t just benefited from the NPP; the paradox is that, he has harvested, processed, packaged, and exported those benefits. And after all that, he now parades himself as the party’s chief critic a one-man opposition industry inside the party he claims to defend.

At this stage, he acts less like a loyal stakeholder, more likely a walking, talking political earthquake unpredictable, loud, and always arriving when the party least needs a tremor, and more like a roaming catalyst of division someone whose brand of politics feeds on disruptions, chaos, contracts, and contradictions as his formula, rather than unity.

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