I don’t want to die with my vision for Ghana – Ken Agyapong on why he wants to be President

Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, has again justified his decision to become President of the republic.

He says he doesn’t want to go to his grave with his vision for the country.

“I don’t want to die with my vision and the only way to let Ghanaians know that a Ghanaian can also do it is to vie for this presidency,” he said in an interview on Good Evening Ghana.

During his interaction with host, Paul Adom Otchere, the Assin Central MP painfully revealed that he has on various occasions proposed innovative solutions to the country’s many woes in the various sectors of the economy. However, all these suggestions have been ignored. He, thus, believes that the only way to make these solutions materialise, is to become the President of the country.

“I’ve always thought that I could effect change in people’s lives without necessarily being President but I’ve come to realise that, especially with the COVID and Russia-Ukraine war; I feel whatever pragmatic approach I have towards development, I should only be President so that my vision will come through and I’ll be able to change the fortunes of this country.

“I have tried it in business fields, I employ a lot of young people but there are still many young people that are not working which clearly indicates to me that being only a businessman, I cannot help this youth enough but indeed if I become president, I can express my views and vision to everyone and bring the whole country together to move this country,” he said.

Despite an initial claim he made in 2021 on the Good Evening Ghana show to the effect that he had no presidential ambition, the legislator made a sudden u-turn and disclosed his intentions to run for presidency.

Touching on this, he noted that: “Indeed previously I wasn’t interested but now I am because successive governments have done their part when it comes to education for instance, most structures in the educational sector are just theory; we need abstract thinkers and pragmatic solutions to our problems.”