Flagbearer aspirant Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has disclosed that each of the five contestants in the New Patriotic Party’s flagbearership contest paid an extra four million cedis after paying for the filing fees.
According to him, the party is currently broke eight months after leaving power and therefore is doing all it can to find resources.
To Kennedy Agyapong, it is about time the NPP resourced its party while in power because that is how best to run a political party.
“We need to build the party, and we can only build the party if we resource the party people. We don’t resource them. Someone can say we are not here because of the party. Someone’s agency, since he left the NDC, has filled over 12 vacancies, and you are sitting here jobless. These same people are coming to you; please don’t sell yourself cheap,” he said while addressing party folks in the Western North region.
“What’s even disgraceful now is that all the aspirants are paying four million for development fees. I took my form for a hundred thousand and filed for five hundred thousand. I was told that there was a deadline, so I had to give them four million.”
He continued “If contracts were given to our contractors, will we have been standing there when NDC was distributing money and we cannot be doing same? Please try me and lets see. After four years if I don’t deliver, you can remove me and try another person, if I do well we continue to build the country and the party”.
