Feb 24, 2012 at 1:05pm

An opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) firebrand Kennedy Agyapong has rendered an apology to President John Evans Atta Mills for calling him “the number one thief” in Ghana.

Mr. Agyapong, in an interview with Citi FM’s Umaru Sanda Amadu, indicated that he has been forced to swallow the bitter pill because of the incessant pressure mounting on him to do so.

At the NPP ‘Gargantuan Rally’ over the weekend, Mr. Agyapong called President Mills a “thief” and “most corrupt” and went further to lash out at the number one gentleman of the country on a political radio talk show called Boiling Point on Accra-based Oman FM.

He said: “We’re all human beings; if you do something and the society think they revere you and therefore such statement shouldn’t come from you, then you as a human being should be reasonable and also admit your mistake.”

“Today, I had a call from China and a whole Church of Pentecost priest that I admire very well called my friend in China to tell me that yesterday the insults were too much on Boiling Point.


“I’d be honest with you, I have a soft spot for the President except that sometimes, I get so furious and annoyed when he sits there for his young men to go out there and insult everybody in NPP and he doesn’t say anything,” the NPP MP for Assin North told Citi News.

The legislator noted: “People were calling me saying the words were too strong etc so I said we live in a society, you cannot be right 100 per cent so even if your own people are saying the words were too strong, I take it back, that is why I said sorry to the President.”

Mr. Agyapong, however, indicated that his apology is conditional in the fact that he was told that other high profile NDC persons would come out to apologise to NPP officials, especially the flagbearer Nana Akufo-Addo.

He, however, added that he is “monitoring closely and if they don’t do it, we’d still come. The same way they talk, we’d retaliate.”

Listen to the NPP MP in the attached audio file against the headline

Story: Martin Asiedu-Dartey and video: Ekow Anderson/Citifmonline.com/Ghana