The Cape Coast metropolis went agog on Saturday when the final leg of the ‘Showdown Health Walk’ to rally support and votes from delegates and supporters for New Patriotic Party presidential contender Hon. Ken Ohene Agyapong came off in the Central Regional capital.
There was a massive turnout as hundreds thronged the principal streets to participate and listen to the man of the moment, Hon. Ken Ohene Agyapong, with barely a week to go for the November 4 National Delegates Congress to elect the presidential candidate of the NPP.
This is the fourth in the series of Showdown Health Walks, organized to galvanize the support base of Hon. Ken Agyapong and reach out to delegates and supporters of the NPP. Earlier editions have taken place at Madina in the Greater Accra Region, in Kumasi, the Ashanti Region capital and in the Twin City of Sekondi-Takoradi.
The excited participants, dressed in branded ‘Ken for 2024’ t-shirts and other party paraphernalia, danced to music and chanted slogans of the presidential candidate as they displayed placards indicating the reasons Mr. Agyapong was the best candidate for Ghana.
More than 10 pickups and buses joined the procession and played different kinds of Ghanaian music to entertain the attendees amidst long hours of non-stop traffic on the principal streets of Cape Coast, where the walk took place.
Delegates from all 22 constituencies, well-wishers, party executives and leadership participated in the walk.
It also attracted highly respected personalities in the NPP party, as well as some current and retired leaders.
Security personnel detailed to monitor the event were virtually on holiday as the ‘showdown walk” was peaceful and entertaining.
The walk, which began at the Cape Coast Sports Stadium around 8 a.m., ended around 1:30 p.m. at the Cape Coast Chapel Square, where the affable legislator addressed his supporters and well-wishers.
In his address to the teeming crowd, Hon. Ken Agyapong said he stood tall among the rest of the aspirants due to his selfless qualities and appealed to the delegates to vote for him as their preferred choice.
The businessman and entrepreneur touted his peace-making role in the NPP and urged the delegates to debunk assertions that he was a troublemaker. He said through his numerous peace-building initiatives, the NPP has been able to achieve a lot of political successes
Hon Ken Agyapong also pledged that under his leadership, when he becomes the flagbearer of the NPP, he would regain all the parliamentary seats lost by the NPP in the previous elections, and said he was the true son of the Central Region, who had and continues to play immense, diverse and significant roles for the benefit of the party in the Central Region.
Hon. Ken Agyapong wrapped up his interaction with the supporters, with an appeal to consider and vote for him in the NOV 4 primaries as he would bring victory to the NPP in 2024, and urged the participants to rally the party’s delegates to give him the nod.
Delegates will choose from the final four shortlisted nominees, Hon. Ken Agyapong, a six term MP for Assin Central and business magnate, who is the number one on the ballot paper, Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, former Agric Minister, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, and former MP for Mampong, Francis Addai Nimo.
