By Akaneweo Kabiru Abdul
Dear General Secretary, Justin Frimpong Kodua Esq.,
I bring you greetings, though I must state plainly that this piece is not written out of courtesy, but out of deep reflection, disappointment, and moral obligation.
The last time I wrote to you through this same medium was sometime in the middle of last year. Sadly, the issues I raised then have not only been ignored, they have metastasised.
Today, I am compelled to write to your office again, though not a card-bearing member of your party, but a Ghanaian who believes in political discipline, fairness, and the ideological tradition upon which your party was founded.
General Secretary, I did not live long enough to witness the earliest congresses of your party, but I have studied them seriously. I have read about the 1992 congress that brought Professor Albert Adu-Boahen forward as a symbol of courage and intellect.
I have studied the 1996 and 1998 congresses that produced J. A. Kufuor, contests marked by decency, restraint, and respect for party unity. I have examined the fiercely contested 2007 Legon Congress that elected Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, and the subsequent congresses of 2011 and 2014 that reaffirmed him.
And finally, the 2023 congress that produced Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, one you personally presided over as the chief scribe of the party.
It is therefore baffling and frankly disgraceful that under your watch, the party has degenerated into a sanctuary for indiscipline, abuse, and selective justice.
In 2023, your leadership shamefully looked on while a presidential aspirant, Kennedy Agyapong, went on a reckless rampage, publicly tearing down party structures, insulting government appointees, attacking a sitting President, and viciously assaulting the integrity of a sitting Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, who was also a contestant in that same race.
You did nothing. Absolutely nothing.
You tolerated this madness under the false pretence of inclusiveness, when in reality, you were appeasing one man’s wounded ego.
The consequences were devastating. The propaganda, insults, and falsehoods Kennedy Agyapong injected into the political bloodstream were gleefully harvested by your opponents and used to batter your own flagbearer. That damage was not incidental, it was decisive. And it contributed massively to the party’s humiliating defeat.
Fast forward to today, and the pattern has not changed. The party is heading into another primary, and once again, Kennedy Agyapong has appointed himself executioner-in-chief of the party, burning bridges, poisoning minds, and dragging the party’s internal contest into the gutter.
And once again, your leadership is mute.
I have followed this internal campaign closely. With honesty and objectivity, I state this: Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has not attacked a single co-aspirant. He has not mentioned their names. He has not engaged in insults, innuendo, or character assassination. You know this. If you deny it, you are lying to yourself and to history.
Yet Kennedy Agyapong has made attacking Dr. Bawumia his primary campaign message. Unprovoked. Relentless. Personal.
He attacks his intelligence, his credibility, and shamefully drags his wife, Hajia Samira Bawumia, into the mud. This is not politics. This is abuse.
While these incendiary attacks rage on, you and the entire National Executive Committee have chosen cowardly silence. Silence that emboldens the aggressor.
Silence that legitimises abuse. Silence that tells the world that your party rewards indiscipline if it comes from the right person.
What makes this hypocrisy unbearable is your selective enforcement of discipline. When Abronye dared to respond, when he merely gave Kennedy Agyapong a taste of the same poison, you were swift, decisive, and loud.
Letters were issued. Disciplinary threats were brandished. But when Kennedy Agyapong lies against Dr. Bawumia, insults him daily, and maligns his family, you suddenly lose your voice.
Under your watch, the party now appears more interested in empowering an abuser with unlimited ammunition while criminalizing self-defence. You have effectively turned the party into a playground where one man throws stones freely, while others are punished for picking up pebbles.
Worse still, the presidential election committee you constituted has taken a series of deeply flawed and suspicious decisions, proxy voting controversies, the unlawful disenfranchisement of over one hundred TESCON presidents, and other irregularities, all of which conveniently pleased one individual.
It gives the disturbing impression that the party has been captured, bent, and contorted to massage Kennedy Agyapong’s ego, as though the party is his personal property.
Seriously, Kennedy Agyapong does not own the party. He does not have a monopoly over vulgarity. He does not possess a special licence to insult, demean, and dehumanise others under the banner of politics.
Dr. Bawumia is not a punching bag. He is a human being. He bleeds. He feels pain. He has a wife. He has children. He has a family whose dignity should matter to any leadership that claims to stand for values. The party leadership have never been fair to DMB.
Tomorrow will not be kind. It will remember who abused power, who enabled abuse, and who hid behind silence while a party tore itself apart.
You still have a choice, though time is running out. Best wishes sir!
