Former Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya, Sarah Adwoa Safo, has dismissed the election review committee set up by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and chaired by former Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Aaron Oquaye, as “bogus” and lacking credibility.
The 12-member Election Review Committee was constituted by the National Council of the NPP to assess the party’s performance in the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections.
The committee was given three months to submit recommendations aimed at helping the party recover from its electoral defeat.
However, speaking on Accra-based JoyNews on Thursday, March 20, Adwoa Safo alleged that the committee’s real agenda was to blame the party’s 2024 flagbearer, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, for the defeat and ultimately block his chances of contesting again.
“A committee that is put together, and it’s an intentional committee put together just to make sure that we find certain facts and push a particular candidate away from the candidacy so that we can bring our own—you call that a credible, fact-finding committee?” she questioned.
She further challenged Professor Oquaye to first account for his son, Mike Oquaye Jnr.’s loss in the Dome-Kwabenya parliamentary election before passing judgment on Dr. Bawumia’s performance.
“If Professor Mike Oquaye thinks he has integrity, if he thinks he is credible, I want the first page of his fact-finding report to explain why his son, Mike Oquaye Jnr., lost the Dome-Kwabenya seat. He should give us a detailed report on that,” she demanded.
According to her, unless the report is compiled with “integrity, transparency, and without biases and prejudices,” any negative findings against Dr. Bawumia would not be accepted.
“If he is able to do it and do it with the needed integrity, transparency, and without biases, I will take any finding in that report against Dr. Bawumia. Other than that, that report will not work in this party,” she warned.
Adwoa Safo also criticized the party for selecting Prof. Oquaye as the chair of the review committee, stating that his personal involvement in the elections makes him unfit to lead such an important exercise.
