Kennedy Agyapong remains a member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). He has also been cleared to contest the flagbearership with the other four contestants. These two facts alone are not mere political developments – they are terminal symptoms of a dying party
They prove that the NPP’s Code of Conduct is not just dead. It a public joke. They ask a question whose answer is obvious:
Why has every level of authority – from the General Secretary to the Council of Elders – abdicated its duty to discipline a man whose political career is built on sustained party sabotage?
Clearing Kennedy Agyapong to contest the flagbearership was not a procedural step. It confirmed the depth of institutional decay. It was a complete institutional surrender.
It tells every party member that the NPP has no core; that rules can bow to threats; that loyalty is a liability; that recklessness is the new currency of political ambition.
Contrast this with the NDC’s operational code. Under Asiedu Nketia, you do not misbehave and remain a member of the NDC.
They enforce discipline without apology. Public conduct that threatens their electoral interest is not tolerated; it is treated as mutiny. The consequences of crossing the line are immediate, visible, and absolute. That clarity protects their armour.
The NPP’s recent parliamentary records show what happens when discipline collapses:
2016: 169 seats
2020: 137 seats
2024: 88 seats
2025: 87 seats
This is not misfortune. It is correlation – correlation between party discipline and electoral outcomes. While the NDC enforced internal discipline, the NPP allowed its own members to work openly against its candidates. Central authority did not just weaken; it voluntarily disintegrated.
Kennedy Agyapong played a direct role in this collapse in the 2024 polls.
His “elimination project” was not a metaphor. It was a documented, executed strategy to punish MPs who supported Vice President Bawumia. The results are not rumours; they are lost seats.
In Agona West, he backed Cynthia Morrison to contest as an independent against the NPP’s candidate, Arthur, splitting the party’s vote and handing the seat to the NDC.
In Gomoa Central, he provided financial and strategic support to his friend, A-Plus, against the NPP candidate, ensuring a loss.
In Awutu Senya East, he supported the NDC parliamentary candidate, Hon. Koryo, with cash and logistics to unseat Hawa Koomson for daring to support Bawumia.
The Assin Central: after 24 years, he sold his own legacy seat to the NDC because he lost the primaries.
When the NDC Deputy General Secretary and Deputy Director of Operations at the Presidency, Mustapha Foyo Gbande, publicly credited internal NPP collaborators for their 2024 victory, he was not hinting at ghosts. He was naming the man who publicly vowed to send the NPP into opposition if he lost. The evidence is not circumstantial; it is publicly documented.
The precedent of courage
We have faced this before.
In 2015, the party suspended National Chairman Paul Afoko, General Secretary Kwabena Agyei Agyapong, and Vice Chairman Sammy Crabbe for anti-party conduct. That decisive action was painful – but it cleared the path for the 2016 victory.
So what has changed?
Why is the same party that acted with surgical precision now paralysed in the face of more blatant sabotage? Why is the man who campaigned for the NDC being indulged?
How did he pass a “rigorous” screening? On what metric – loyalty? Discipline? Respect for rules?
The screening was not a process. It was a farce. It proved that the NPP has replaced its rulebook with a price list and timidity.
For years, Kennedy Agyapong has held the party hostage through grudges, threats, and calculated disruption. He insults, destabilises, and undermines authority.
The Diagnosis and the Cure
The NPP’s disease is not a mystery. It is leadership cowardice – a preference for temporary, factional peace over the permanent authority that comes from upholding principles and applying the rules.
A party that tolerates its own saboteur cannot govern a nation. Sharp tongues do not win elections. Only discipline does.
The prescription is not complex.
We have barely 40 days to the presidential primaries.
Enforce the Code of Conduct. Immediately. And publicly. If it does not bite, it is a decoration.
Dissolve the camps immediately after January 31.
We are not a coalition of warlords. We are one party. The Elephant comes first.
This is no longer a political contest. We are in intensive care. And the diagnosis is complete. The medicine is on the table. The patient is refusing the dose.
A party that cannot save itself from its own destroyer does not deserve to survive. The choice is no longer between Kennedy Agyapong and someone else.
It is between the NPP and its own extinction. Make your choice now.
By J. A. Sarbah
