{"id":107698,"date":"2025-12-19T23:06:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=107698"},"modified":"2025-12-19T23:06:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:06:00","slug":"afeku-says-adwoa-safos-remarks-highlight-kennedy-agyapongs-principled-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=107698","title":{"rendered":"Afeku says Adwoa Safo\u2019s remarks highlight Kennedy Agyapong\u2019s principled leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'>\n                <div class=\"twp-read-time\">\n                \t<i class=\"booster-icon twp-clock\"><\/i> <span>Read Time:<\/span>2 Minute, 40 Second                <\/div>\n\n            <\/div><div>\n<p>Former Minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture Catherine Afeku has described recent comments by former Dome-Kwabenya Member of Parliament Adwoa Safo as an inadvertent endorsement of New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer aspirant Kennedy Agyapong\u2019s principled approach to governance.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on <strong>JoyNews\u2019 News Desk <\/strong>on Friday, December 19, Ms Afeku said that while Ms Safo raised concerns about her own political prospects should Mr Agyapong become the NPP leader and eventually President, her statements nonetheless revealed key aspects of his integrity and merit-based leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Safo, while acknowledging Mr Agyapong\u2019s significant contributions to the party, suggested that her experience and service would not be recognised under such a scenario.<\/p>\n<p>She further questioned whether her personal and professional relationship with Mr Agyapong would influence any potential appointment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have never said he is going to win this contest, but let us assume he wins and becomes President, and he comes across my CV,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking at the work I have done and how I have served this nation and my party, for someone I have two children with to consider appointing me as a minister would seem impossible; hell will break loose in this country. And the Kennedy Agyapong I know, with whom I have two children, would never do it,\u201d Ms Safo explained.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to these remarks, Ms Afeku said she did not wish to dwell extensively on Ms Safo\u2019s comments but highlighted their unintended positive implication for Mr Agyapong. <\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>READ ALSO: <\/strong>Adwoa Safo says her political future lies with Bawumia rather than Kennedy Agyapong<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cNot that I want to spend too much time on Adwoa, but in that same conversation, she vouched for the principled nature of the candidate who can turn things around in Ghana, and that candidate is Ken,\u201d Ms Afeku said.<\/p>\n<p>The former minister described the comments as a case of \u201creverse psychology\u201d, where an effort to criticise Mr Agyapong ultimately reinforced public confidence in his character.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you look at the bigger picture, 18 million people are going to vote, and one person, in her effort to denigrate, actually ended up vouching for the principled nature of Kennedy Agyapong,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Afeku stressed that Ms Safo\u2019s admission, made freely, without coercion, that she would not automatically benefit from her personal relationship with Mr Agyapong, underlined his rejection of nepotism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe said, not coerced and not pushed, that if Kennedy wins, she will not be given a job and her political career will come to an end,\u201d Ms Afeku noted.<\/p>\n<p>Describing the statement as \u201cvery loaded\u201d, Ms Afeku said it demonstrated Mr Agyapong\u2019s firm stance against family-and-friends governance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt tells you two things: Kennedy is principled; he will not tolerate family and friends, he does not support nepotism, and he tells it as it is. 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