Majority Leader Alexander Kwamina Afenyo-Markin has said his inability to publicly support his friend Kennedy Ohene Agyapong during his flag bearer bid for the New Patriotic Party was due to an earlier commitment he had made to Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia.
He says Ken Agyapong is a close friend who has supported him financially to sustain his business at the time things went sour for him, making his inability to publicly declare his support for him very difficult.
According to the Majority Leader, both himself and Ken Agyapong had declared their support for Dr. Bawumia, before he turned around to announce his interest to contest.
He explains he could not go back on his words due to the faiths he is ascribed to, but had to let the Assin Central MP understand the circumstances surrounding his inability to come out to support him openly.
He says abandoning Dr. Bawumia would have been a significant source of disappointment.
“It was a very difficult moment for me, you see, Ken [Agyapong] and I were all supporting Bawumia. Both of us were Bawumia and Ken out of the blue, he informed me that Alex, I want to contest, I said okay but as it is, I’m a Freemason and a Catholic.
“I know how to respect friendship, yeah, and if you have given your word to a brother [Bawumia], you have to keep it. So I told him that our friendship would remain. But it will be difficult for me to be seen to be out there doing this or that. However, I would want to play the role of resolving issues and being there. He understood where I was coming from,” he said on Accra-based Citi TV Monday, February 27, 2024.
He emphasized, “This is a bosom friend, at the time that I was going through a crisis in parliament, positions had been shared and nobody considered Afenyo-Markin, he called me at midnight into his house, and we talked business. He said Alex I want to give you capital to revive your business. He gave me capital to revive my business, and I turned round to betray him. No, I can’t do that, alright? Neither can I support him too, openly no, I couldn’t have. My situation made it difficult for me to openly support him. He put us in a very difficult situation.”
The Effutu lawmaker expressed his willingness to have positioned himself differently had he known Ken Agyapong would run for president.
“If I had known that my bosom friend was going to be a presidential aspirant. I would have positioned myself. He has spoken on TV and radio in support of Bawumia.”
The MP for Assin Central recently expressed his feelings of betrayal and the insults he suffered from colleagues he had assisted.
‘I can’t forgive them’ – Ken Agyapong on colleague MPs who betrayed, attacked him
