Former General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwabena Agyapong, has refuted claims that he was the person who came up with the ‘top-from-bottom’ approach to elect a flagbearer first before electing party’s executives, as announced by the party's National Executive Committee.

Speaking in a viral video clip from a recent event sighted by GhanaWeb, Agyapong indicated that the proposal he sent to the leadership of the party is very different from what has been announced.

“I was one of the people the committee called to say that the proposals I made were very good, and I thank them. So, I was thinking that they had accepted everything I proposed, because I was confident that they would help the party,” he said.

He, however, pointed out that some of the proposals — including the expansion of the party’s electoral college to include former constituency chairmen, former regional executives, former national executives, former Members of Parliament, former Ministers of State, former DCEs, and polling station executives — seem to have been ignored.

He indicated that he questioned the leadership of the party on the part of his proposal that involves the expansion of the electoral college to make it more inclusive, but they did not give him any tangible answer.

“Some people who had their own agenda took only the aspect of my proposal that had to do with presidential [elections]. I keep hearing in the news that Kwabena Agyapong says ‘top-from-bottom,’ but I never said that, nor did I mention ‘bottom-from-top’,” he said.

He added that his suggestion was that, due to the current situation the NPP finds itself in — which seems to be creating division — the party could hold its flagbearership election first, after expanding its electoral college.

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Kwabena Agyapong only echoed what every honest delegate is thinking, the NPP cannot afford to impose leadership from the top down again. It failed us in 2024, and repeating it will be our biggest mistake.

Let it be known: this time, no scheming, no shortcuts, no bias. We will… pic.twitter.com/Un8LStR48K

— Qwofi Manuel 🇬🇭 (@qwofi_manuel) June 24, 2025