My recent online feature articles or publications are exhortations to extricate Hon. Kennedy Agyapong from his infatuation with tendentious political and victimisation pronouncements.
As messages carried across in parables carry more weight and stick with the hearers longer, I have similarly resorted to conveying my messages to Kennedy in proverbs.
An attestable proverb, “if you kick a dog, it will bite you”, has many a time become the portion of Kennedy Agyapong yet, he is not learning any lesson from it.
Putting it across in a more common or succinct expression as by the Akans, “Sɛ wo pam ohufoɔ a, wo to ne barima”, translated into English as, “If you chase a coward, you end up confronting with their bravery”, thus, if you see someone as a coward and always try to molest or intimidate them, one day, they will stand up tall to fiercely contend with you to prove their God endowed audacity. It is a case of each human being having their good and bad characters which they do let manifest depending on the occasion and their mood.
Look at the ongoing public, or on-air, fracas, between Kwame Baffoe aka Abronye and Kennedy Agyapong. Is it not comparative to a docile dog given a kick, hence biting the offender? Kennedy has clearly given Abronye a kick in the teeth and like any animal chased into a corner, he is fighting back to liberate himself from danger and disgrace.
Money talks but money is not the means to everything. Therefore, the rich man must know their limit when dealing with people. Some people may be poor, but they judiciously protect their self-esteem. They will let all hell break loose when anyone tries to denigrate them. This is exactly the situation between Kennedy and Abronye.
I pray Kennedy learns to treat people with respect regardless of their penurious social standing in Ghana.
Additionally, he must learn to keep secrets confided in him by friends, colleagues, or party members rather than using such information he happens to be aware of as a weapon to wield against them, as and when he decides to, especially, when such people do not succumb to his whims and caprices.
Why is he fond of threatening, intimidating, and blackmailing those that disagree with him on issues he holds dear to, and wishes to have his way in? Is that not selfish character?
“Speech is silver, silence is golden”, my advice to those feuding members of NPP.
I strongly advise Kennedy to desist from his spontaneous reactions to issues without first thinking them through. If he aspires to be a presidential material capable of winning an election to become the future president of Ghana, he had better adhere to my offer of advice to him; and had better refrain from his quick temper overreactions and treat people with respect regardless of who and what they are.
Ghanaians will never be proud of having a blemished character with difficulty to keeping secrets to become their president, Kennedy must note that.
The friends of Kennedy had better tell the good things about their candidate and his policies rather than unnecessarily attacking his opponents. Stop this dirty politics because such actions will not win you votes but rather push voters into the wide-open arms of NDC, your political opponent.
It must not be to Kennedy, the case of, “If I can’t succeed, everyone else must fail”. No and no!
I will continue to guide Kennedy by offering him advice and suggestions to better his chances of becoming an acceptable and proud presidential material, if and only if, he will see sense in them. He must bear in mind that pride goes before a fall.
My articles will put him through the furnace to end him coming up so purified as gold does when go through the furnace. It is only by him ending his unnecessary confrontational vituperations that he could become appealing to many a Ghanaian as an acceptable presidential material.
