Member of Parliament for Dome Kwabenya, Sarah Adwoa Safo has explained her absence from the constituency in the just-ended elections.
According to her, she did not want to be the face of the campaign in the constituency to allow the parliamentary candidate to sell himself well.
To her, after years of representing the people of Dome Kwabenya, showing her face in the constituency would have meant she taking the shine off the party’s candidate hence her decision to rather join the national campaign.
Adwoa Safo, who spoke to the media at Parliament, said, “The moment I lost that seat, I made it clear that I would be joining the national campaign. I was not wavy about that because when you have been an MP for 12 years, you have your supporters and people still moving around you; you don’t want a situation where you are not the face of the constituency anymore but people receive you as the face of the constituency; I didn’t want that conflict,” she said.
Adding that “for Dome Kwabenya, I think that my influence is still that so I was going to give my opponent the room and the space to enjoy it and to work the work he wants it to work not the way I want the constituency to work,” she said.
On whether she will come back to contest for her seat in the future, she indicated that it is early days yet but the political party needs to sit and find out how best they can snatch the seat back in the future with or without her.
