Mr Kwesi Nyantakyi, a national campaign team member for Mr Kennedy Ohene Agyapong in the pending New Patriotic Party’s (NPP), Presidential primary, says Mr Agyapong is the only candidate who represents the party’s tradition.
He said even though all five aspirants in the contest were competent to lead the NPP as it’s flagbearer, the most competent was Mr Agyapong, a Businessman and former Member of Parliament for the Assin Central Constituency.
“He is the most competent because, of all the candidates who are aspiring, to become flagbearer, he is the one who truly represents the NPP tradition,” Mr Nyantakyi told journalists in an interview in Bolgatanga.
The Campaign Team Official was in the Upper East Region as part of campaign activities to galvanize support from Party delegates for Mr Agyapong in the election scheduled for January 31.
According to Mr Nyantakyi, Mr Agyapong was the epitome of private sector development and job creation, which constituted the tradition of the NPP.
“As a private entrepreneur, Kennedy Agyapong has created job opportunities and employed over 7,000 people. It means that if you give such a person executive authority of the country, he will create many jobs for the teeming youth who are unemployed.
“He is the only one who addresses issues of the youth. The youth of this country constitute about 75 percent of our population,” Mr Nyantakyi, a former President of the Ghana Football Association said.
He said per figures from the Ghana Statistical Service and the Ghana Population and Housing Census of 2020, people under 35years constituted 73 per cent of the population, and that a lot of them were unemployed.
Mr Nyantakyi said the universities and tertiary institutions generated in excess of 100,000 graduates every year, and out of the number, less than 15 percent secured gainful employment within the year.
“At every point in time, we have a backlog of about three million Ghanaian youth who are unemployed. It is Kennedy Agyapong who tells us that when he becomes President, he will create jobs and shows how he will create the jobs.
“He uses the natural resources in the various communities to show how he will set up factories, how he will transform our raw materials into semi-processed goods for export, and how he will galvanize the youth and create opportunities for them,” Mr Nyantakyi said.
He said Mr Agyapong’s message of job creation and industrialization was the most popular and enviable among the messages of his colleague aspirants adding that, Mr Agyapong was well known among the citizenry and could not be associated with corruption.
“He is very honest, truthful, bold and speaks truth to power. People even think that he is the reincarnate of Jerry Rawlings of the 1970s and 80s, and that Ghana needs such a leader to stop the indiscipline that has eaten so deep into the body fabric of this country,” Mr Nyantakyi said.
He appealed to NPP delegates across the Region to vote massively for Mr Agyapong as the Party’s flagbearer saying, “He is the only one who has a message that addresses the country in its entirety.”
GNA
Edited by Caesar Abagali/Linda Asante Agyei
Jan. 19, 2026
Photo caption: Photo showing Mr Kwesi Nyantakyi speaking to journalists in Bolgatanga.
