The New Patriotic Party (NPP) executives of the Dome Kwabenya constituency in the Greater Accra region have stated categorically they are not swayed by the charade put up by Adowa Safo recently when she officially begged the hierarchy of the NPP for forgiveness.
They claim that they will not back their Member of Parliament’s attempt to run for the seat once more on the party’s ballot.
On Thursday, September 14, 2023, MP Sarah Adwoa Safo apologized to the party and the residents in her constituency. Madam Adwoa Safo recently declared her decision to run for the seat once more, claiming that her people had urged her to do so. Yet, speaking with Alfred Ocansay on Ghana on TV3, Theophilus Ansah Larbi, the party’s general secretary for the Dome-Kwabenya constituency, announced that he had spoken with some of his constituents and learned that they would not support Adwoa Safo if she were to stand as the party’s candidate in the 2024 parliamentary elections.
“I am a leader of the party and a delegate, you represent a group of people so you have to go to the people, ask the people what they want and you do what they want not what you want. So as a leader of the party, I have gone to the ground and asked people what type of person and what kind of person they want us to bring this time round so they all rally behind us so we can keep our space and what they are telling us is; for what Hon. Adwoa has done within her three terms as an MP, I think there should be a cap point and that is what I am saying. So, if I mean well for the party, then there’s no point I will support her bid,” the General Secretary for the constituency emphasized.
He further posited that, for the party to retain the Dome-Kwabenya Parliamentary seat, they have to get a new representative and not Adwoa Safo.
“The last election, all these things Hon. Adwoa Safo has been doing started before the elections and [she] didn’t help in the campaign, didn’t do anything after the election and she went away after the election and coming back to apologise, yes, apologies well taken but I don’t think if we give the seat back to Adwoa Safo, the vote of the NDC will [not] increase again which [we] wouldn’t like going into 2024 because the last election, NDC has never gotten 50,000 votes in Dome-Kwabenya before but for the first time they got it because of certain attitude our MP put before the constituency,” Mr. Ansah Larbi stated.
