Personal aid to Sarah Adowa Safo, the Member of Parliament for Dome/Kwabenya. has stated agitation for by-election at the constituency is unnecessary because his boss is still at post and in touch with constituents.
According to him, the MP is very much at post and performing her duties to her constituents though physically absent due to ill-health, adding that the constituents of Dome-Kwabenya are not yet tired of her good works.
Reacting to calls for a bye-election to be conducted to replace the current MP due to her long absence from Parliament, the PA, Nana Dubin Kwapong confirmed he has indeed heard of calls for a bye-election.
He disclosed that an NDC Constituency Executive has informed him that some of his own party people met them to push an agenda for a bye-election in the constituency.
Nana Dubin Kwapong was speaking to the brouhaha surrounding the absence of Adowa Safo from Parliament and the agitations for a bye-election during an interview.
He said, “It’s part of the thorny issues and the politics that are going on in this constituency and the agenda of Oquaye Junior; I will not mince words on that. He feels the MP’s absence is something that he can ride on to push himself to become an MP but this is not something that constituents in their entirety support.”
“Some people wish to take undue advantage but when it comes we would deal with it. She is still a loyal member of the NPP. This is a party she has labored for and sacrificed so much for. She will still continue to support the party in whatever way and capacity,” he emphasised.
He indicated that Adwoa Safo has not thought of a bye election adding; “She remains the Member of Parliament for the constituency. Until the next primaries she remains the MP and committed to the work that has been given to her by the good people of this constituency.”
“And should she make up her mind to contest again in the primaries, and her closest competitor Oquaye Junior decides to come, she would defeat him and be the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for 2024,” he added.
Nana Kwapong noted that for now the Dome-Kwabenya MP has not made her intentions clear, but stressed her absence is also not because she has made up her mind not to contest again.
“Far from that, it is just a few issues and when she returns and wants to put out those issues she would do that. The people would want her to contest again,” he said.
He pointed out that the recent polling station elections was held in her absence and yet there was so much interest because though the party tilted the process against her, people had much confidence and trust her.
“They fought and are fighting and ensuring that the right things are done. She has not told me what her decisions are but from the little that I have witnessed on the ground, it tells me that they are not tired of her,” he said.
Source: MyPublisher24.com/Kwaku Sakyi-Danso