The campaign team of Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has taken the initiative to clarify a recent statement made by the flagbearer hopeful in the New Patriotic Party.
The team emphasized that Kennedy Agyapong’s comment about a potential “showdown” with President Nana Akufo-Addo and Vice President Dr. Mahamudu during Saturday’s special delegates conference was not intended as a threat.
In a video that circulated, Agyapong was captured making a phone call where he expressed his determination to confront the President and Vice President following reports of attacks on his agents in the North East Region.
At a press conference, Agyapong’s campaign manager, Kwame Owusu, said that the expression “showdown” was only used to indicate that Agyapong would win the November 4 polls, regardless of any alleged intimidation against him.
“Whether or not the confrontation was directed towards the Vice President or not, are you concerned about the meaning of confrontation? Because I think the showdown is basically a decisive point of either a confrontation or a contest. In that regard, if it is addressed to the Vice president it only then meant that come November no matter what happens he is going to be a victor.”
“And so that is a showdown, a decisive confrontation and contest… It is not a threat, it is nothing for us to be worried about, it is just a simple language probably expressed in a different form,” he stated.
The campaign manager said that Agyapong is willing to cooperate with the disciplinary process.
Watch a livestream of the press conference below:
