Actor John Dumelo has said that a number of people wrote him off in the 2024 contest against Lydia Alhassan.
They advanced several arguments that suggested he could not lead the people of Ayawaso West Wugon.
According to him, some of the arguments were that the constituency is an elite constituency and that an actor cannot be made to represent it in Parliament.
However, he motivated himself with the experience of losing the first election in 2020.
“A lot of people didn’t believe I could win the seat. One because Ayawaso is elite, John is an actor and when did he come to the political scene? But it shows the kind of resilience and that look if you fail, failure is not the end. Failure gives you experience and that experience is what you can use to win the seat.
Even now there is a lot of pressure on me because I won by a thirteen-thousand margin, and I need to make sure I consolidate this to make Ayawaso West Wugon great again. I might not be able to do all but I will come and do better than my previous MPs who have been there. I want to thank my wife for coming out to campaign,” he said while speaking on United Showbiz on United Television.
