Former General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwabena Agyei Agyapong, has stated that politics drove him from his engineering career.

He spoke to Roselyn Felli on Prime Morning on Wednesday.

Explaining his disappointment at being suspended by his own party, Mr Agyapong said, "as a young 29-year-old somebody who was prepared to put himself up, to sacrifice, and take a risk for my professional career and all that, politics took me away from my engineering career very early."

The former General Secretary said he served the NPP from 1991 through very difficult times.

He described himself as a strong, firm, and deliberate individual who cannot be easily controlled.

"...I was a bit too firm, too strong, you know, one that could not be controlled easily, you know, so they misunderstood me. They think that I was trying to use that as an opportunity to become president someday," he remarked.

According to Mr. Agyapong, there were many false rumours concocted about him at the time, and the party members did not try to dispel them.

His disappointment was that they all knew that he was decorous, including the sitting President at the time, yet they watched on as the rumours spread.

"…they knew who I was, and the sitting President, I was one of the leading lives of his presidential push in 1998, virtually managing his campaign. So he knows me, he knows how tough I am… so for all of them to sit on and watch for all these lies to be perpetuated against me, I thought it was very disappointing," he indicated.

After all the sacrifices Kwabena Agyapong made for the party, and the allegations made about him, he still supported the party and was eventually re-instated as a member of the party.

"…and I’m happy that after quite a bit of time the party itself realized that they had to restore my position as former General Secretary. So I’m now a full-blown member of the national executives, and I work hard for my party."