Presenting Sarah Adwoa Safo, the party’s current Member of Parliament (MP), as the party’s parliamentary candidate in 2024, according to the NPP’s constituency secretary in Dome-Kwabenya, “may spell doom in 2024.”
According to Theophilus Ansah Larbi, such a move will only benefit the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the opposition party.
If Adwoa Safo is kept on as the Parliamentary Candidate, it will be even more difficult for him to campaign for the NPP.
He acknowledged that the MP’s attitude made it difficult for the party to win the seat in the 2020 elections.
Mr Ansah Larbi speaking on Ghana Tonight on TV3 on Thursday, said, “In the last elections, all these things Adwoa [Safo] has been doing started before the elections,”
“She didn’t help in the campaign, she did not do anything after the election and she just went away after the election [and] she is just coming back to apologize.”
After Adwoa Safo apologized to important party stakeholders, including the executives in the Dome-Kwabenya Constituency, Mr. Ansah Larbi expressed his opposition to her comeback.
Even from him as a delegate, Mr. Ansah Larbi, who accepted the apology, stressed that it would be difficult for her to be retained.
He lamented the NDC’s historic gain of more than 50,000 votes in the 2020 elections.
“But for the first time, they got it because of certain attitudes our MP put before the Constituency elections.”
This comes after the former Deputy Majority Leader gave notice that he intended to run as the NPP’s fourth parliamentary candidate.
“Apology well-taken but I don’t think if we give the feedback to Adwoa Safo, the votes of the NDC will increase again, which we wouldn’t like going into 2024.”
She asserted that the public supports her bid for reelection.
“If the people have called you, what is this apology all about? They have forgiven you because they have called you, so what is this about again? Why worry, then?”
“What they are telling us is that for what Hon. Adwoa Safo has done within her three terms of office as an MP, they think there should be a cut at a point,” Mr. Ansah Larbi said in his capacity as a leader and from extensive interactions with NPP supporters in the constituency.
“If I mean well for the party, there is no way I will support her bid because campaigning will be very difficult even if we will win it will be very difficult than bring a new candidate.”
