You vowed to collapse churches, fought with pastors now you want their vote – Ken Agyapong slammed

The New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) 2024 parliamentary candidate for Agona West, Christopher Arthur, has raised concerns about Kennedy Agyapong’s relationship with the Christian community, especially as the party looks ahead to the 2028 general elections.

According to Arthur, Kennedy Agyapong, a former flagbearer aspirant of the NPP, had previously launched public attacks on pastors and churches in Ghana. He recalled how Agyapong once vowed to expose and collapse what he described as fake ministries across the country. Arthur now wonders how the same man intends to reconcile with these religious communities if he plans to run for president in the future.

His comments come amid ongoing debates over the influence of religion and ethnicity in Ghana’s electoral politics.

Arthur made the remarks in response to a statement by Kwesi Kwarteng, a spokesperson for Kennedy Agyapong and a former Public Relations Officer at the Ministry of Education. Kwarteng had claimed that religion and ethnicity were key reasons behind the NPP’s loss in the 2024 elections.

In an interview on Movement TV on June 11, 2025, Arthur challenged the logic behind Kwarteng’s claims.

“Kwesi Kwarteng said Ghana is a religious country, and that religious balance means Ghanaians won’t vote for a Muslim president,” he said. “If that is their view, then I have a question for Kennedy Agyapong — the same person who waged war on churches, insulted pastors, and attacked religious leaders. Does he not realize that those same religious people also vote?”

Arthur continued, “How will Kennedy Agyapong now enter churches and ask for votes from the same people he once spoke harshly against? Which church does Kennedy Agyapong himself attend?”

He suggested that Kennedy Agyapong’s past conduct toward the religious community might pose a significant challenge to his political ambitions, especially in a deeply religious country like Ghana.