By Gideon Kwasi Annor, A Sleepless Disciple of Prophecy
On Saturday, 21st June 2025, something happened in Kumasi that history must not overlook. In a room filled with the constituency chairmen of the New Patriotic Party, Hon. Kennedy Ohene Agyapong rose as a man moved by truth, pleading for the soul of a party he loves.
Before that moment, a narrative had already been seeded. That Kennedy’s camp opposed the grassroots. That he was against the current polling station executives. The spin was thick, deliberate, and designed to weaken his connection with the base of the party. But what followed on that stage in Kumasi was nothing short of traditional wisdom. It came across as an unfiltered, unscripted, and unflinching message from a man deeply burdened by the direction our party is taking.
“We have not answered the question of why we lost. And if you don’t solve those problems, you can bring Jesus Christ as your presidential candidate and we will still not make it.”
Those words did not fall as mere political soundbites. They echoed with the kind of weight only truth can carry. Akompreko made it clear that parties do not win elections simply by crowning candidates. They win when they fix what is broken and reconnect with what matters.
The decision by the National Council to hold our presidential primaries on 31st January 2026 has been received with mixed feelings. But beyond the date lies something deeper. There is a growing sense that the process is being skewed, that the grassroots are being ignored, and that a top-down imposition is gradually replacing our time-honoured democratic principles.
Kennedy Agyapong, however, refused to remain silent. He did not come to please ears. He came to awaken conscience.
“There is nothing wrong with the structure, polling station to national, then presidential. What is wrong is that we created monsters, and those monsters have distorted everything.”
He dared to say what others feared to whisper. That we have built a system where loyalty is demanded, not earned. Where voices are silenced, not heard. Where people are punished for thinking differently. And where, if left unchecked, the next monster will rise with the same arrogance and destroy what little unity we have left.
He warned that a candidate who climbs to the top without healing the foundation will use that same top to punish all dissenters. We have seen it before, he said. And we must not pretend otherwise.
“You go to constituency, ‘I don’t like the way you look, you are out.’ Polling station, ‘I don’t like you, you are out.’”
The power in his words was not just in what he said, but how he said it. He spoke from a place of conviction, of care, of truth. And truth, as the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once said, passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
Akompreko’s message stands at stage two. It is being ridiculed by whispers and attacked by half-truths. But soon, if we do not harden our hearts, we will accept its self-evident wisdom.
He did not speak for personal glory. He said it plainly. “The party’s interest is greater than Kennedy Agyapong’s interest.”
He ended with a promise based on principle. If the party’s main reason for the top-down approach lies in its current financial constraints to conduct elections from the polling station level up to the presidential, then he will raise the money. Even if it takes one phone call to deliver seven million dollars. But money is not what will save us. Clarity, honesty, and courage will.
As a son of prophecy, I have come to learn that the most profound truths are not shouted. They are spoken plainly, when it matters most. What Akompreko delivered in Kumasi was not campaign rhetoric. It was the plea of a man who has seen what lies ahead if we do not change course.
So to my fellow patriots, I ask once again. Are we listening?
Do not be deceived. Some seek a leader for the party. Others, like Akompreko, seek a president for the nation through the NPP. And that difference will define our future.
Choose wisely.
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