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Former Head of Psychology at the University of Ghana, Professor Joseph Osafo has commended Assin Central lawmaker, Kennedy Agyapong, for peacefully conceding defeat to Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia during the New Patriotic Party’s presidential election.

The New Patriotic Party’s election held on Saturday, November 4, saw Kennedy Agyapong put up an impressive performance polling over 70000 votes to emerge second on the list of four candidates who hoped to become the party’s flagbearer.

Kennedy Agyapong failed to beat the Vice President who garnered over 100,000 votes to be elected flagbearer, however, the former has received lots of commendations considering the fact that he revealed his presidential ambition late into the contest.

During the victory rally by the party at the Accra Sports Stadium, Ken admitted his defeat and promised to work together with Dr. Bawumia and the New Patriotic Party to give the opposition National Democratic Congress a showdown in next year’s general elections.

In view of this, Prof. Joseph Osafo, who now heads the Center for Ageing Studies at Legon, hailed the Assin Central lawmaker saying “I like his posturing while he was conceding that the systems that organized the election were fair”.

He further applauded Ken, stating “you’ve done well. You fought a good fight”.

Prof. Joseph Osafo said this during Peace FM’s “Kokrokoo” morning show on Monday, November 13.