Former Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya, Sarah Adwoa Safo, has explained why he is against Kennedy Agyapong in the NPP presidential race.
According to Adwoa Safo, she does not hate Kennedy Agyapong as she has two children with him, but everyone has their own mind.
She highlighted that the NPP in government were practing family and friends, which caused the party’s defeat, adding that lessons must be learnt from the defeat.
Speaking to NPP delegates, Adwoa Safo stated, “I am a Politician, and Kennedy Agyapong is a politician; there are a lot of delegates here whose husbands are polling station executives, and the wife is also a polling station executive, don’t we all have our minds in politics.
Kennedy Agyapong has his own mind and ambition, and I am also doing my politics. I do not hate Kennedy Agyapong; I have two children with him, but we are not doing family and friends in the NPP.
The opposition that we are in, we must learn lessons from it; we sat in government doing family and friends, and we are here today, so the external politics, I am not going to do family and friends”, she added.
Adwoa Safo added, “When I stood to contest in the year 2007 till now, I have served as a member of parliament for twelve years, I have been deputy majority leader, minister for procurement, minister for Gender, have I not served you?
Kennedy Agyapong has always done his. I am not saying he is going to win, but let’s assume that he wins with him at the Jubilee House, and my CV is there, looking at the work I have done, how I have served Ghana and my party if Kennedy Agyapong appoints me as a Minister in his government, there will be fire in Ghana”.
Also, Adwoa Safo at that same event told the New Patriotic Party (NPP) delegates to ignore claims that former Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia caused the economic mismanagement under the party’s administration.
Adwoa Safo highlighted that Dr Bawumia was not the finance minister, arguing that the former vice president was only a driver’s mate.
According to Adwoa Safo, when some NPP members of parliament called for the removal of Ken Ofori-Atta as Finance Minister, over his poor management of the economy, was he not allowed to destroy the economy before stepping down?
Adwoa Safo further fired critics of the former Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.
A highly vociferous Adwoa Safo questioned Dr Bawumia’s critics whether he was the Finance Minister.
The former Gender Minister quizzed critics on why they blame Dr Mahamudu Bawumia when he was not the Finance Minister.
Adwoa Safo stated, “Was Dr Mahamudu Bawumia the Finance Minister? We were in government when some of our MPs questioned how the economy was being managed and called for the removal of our Finance Minister. Did they allow him to step aside? Didn’t he destroy the economy before he was sent home? So why blame Dr Bawumia?”.
Adwoa Safo further declared Dr Bawumia was not the cause of the NPP’s 2024 election defeat, arguing that Ghanaians despise the NPP because when they spoke, they were not listening.
She added, “If you are a mate and your master is driving a car, can you overrule the driver, even if the driver is not performing well? We did our thing badly. When people spoke, we didn’t listen; we even placed our hands in pensioners’ funds. There are a lot of things that caused the 2024 elections’ defeat; it is not one individual. Dr Bawumia did not cause the NPP defeat; Ghanaians despise us because when they spoke, we were not listening”.
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NPP Presidential Primaries: Family and friends government killed our party, so I am against Kennedy Agyapong becoming the flagbearer. My future is at stake if he becomes president — Sarah Adwoa Sarfo.#OnuaTV pic.twitter.com/D1aEsDQbwa
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