By Edzorna Francis Mensah
The battle for the Dome-Kwabenya Parliamentary Seat is reported to be one of the most keenly contested races as two seasoned lawyers work to unseat the famous sitting MP for the area, in the person of Lawyer Sara Adwoa Safo.
Interactions with some of the delegates on condition of anonymity ahead of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), primaries on Saturday, January 27, disclosed that the race is between the incumbent and Lawyer Mike Quaye Junior, but others also said the race is between Lawyer Mike Quaye and Lawyer Sheela Oppong Sakyi because Lawyer Sara Adwoa Safo is just a “Tik tok MP” who has “abandoned us for a year”.
Just two days before the election, lawyer Mike Quaye is trusting in his past successes and accomplishments, believing that delegates will this time honour their promises to him. In the 2019 parliamentary election, lawyer Mike Quaye lost narrowly with just eight (8) votes to lawyer Adwoa Safo, obtaining 488 votes as opposed to 496 votes secured by Madam Sara.
On the other hand, Lawyer Sheela Oppong Sakyi has been preaching to the delegates that she is “passionate” and has to help, and again, she is “dependable” and “hardworking” as a young lawyer.
A few months ago, the MP rendered a public apology using social media for her long absence from Parliament and continued to do so when she said, “I have been your MP for 12 solid years and worked with humility, hard work, and dedication. You cannot throw that experience away,” Sara Adwoa Safo said after submitting her nomination.
According to her, “I know that everything that happened in the past one year or one-and-a-half years, you have forgiven me because to err is human and to forgive is divine.”
These apologies went viral, but some of these delegates will not fall for them since they have made up their minds to follow what has become the’showdown’ principle in our political discourse nowadays.
On this Saturday, January 27, 2024, about 1,824 delegates from 124 polling stations will be congregating at Atomic Park to elect only one of the three (3) aspirants.
Dome-Kwabenya is one of the most populous constituencies in the National Capital, with a voter population of about 180,000. It is noted to be a stronghold of the NPP.
