The widow of the late Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency Member of Parliament, Emmanuel Kyeremanteng Agyarko has indicated her disgust at the active politicking currently ongoing in the search for a successor to her late husband, while he remains to be buried saying it beats her imagination.
Lydia Alhassan Agyarko who issued a statement a while ago to clear the air on the campaign to get her endorsed as the party’s candidate for the by-election, occasioned by the death of her husband, noted that the timing was wrong for anyone to want to ignore the pain the family is currently going through to drag them into such a thing as politics.
‘’ Yes, several members of our party and the constituency in general have approached to suggest that I consider the idea and my response to them has remained the same; that I be allowed to bury the father of my children in peace and that the time is quite inappropriate for me now to engage in such discussions. I have also encouraged all to take the matter of the bye election in our constituency to the Lord in prayer’’ she wrote in the statement.
See below, the full text of her statement.
My attention has been drawn to some news publications making the rounds that I and my elder sister Naana are engaged in some sort of struggle over the parliamentary seat of the departed Member of Parliament for the Awayaso West Wuogon constituency. I wish to clear the air and state that I have not expressed an interest in the upcoming bye elections in the Awayaso West Wuogon constituency. I have remained in a deep state of shock and mourning following the sudden demise of the father of the seven beautiful children of E.K, five of which I bore with him. I believe I can say same for Naana and her beautiful and kind hearted Jane and Sonny. Why anybody would want to do this to a family in mourning beats my imagination.
Yes, several members of our party and the constituency in general have approached to suggest that I consider the idea and my response to them has remained the same; that I be allowed to bury the father of my children in peace and that the time is quite inappropriate for me now to engage in such discussions. I have also encouraged all to take the matter of the bye election in our constituency to the Lord in prayer.
I have heard of agitations from sections of the constituency for my candidature and I have sought to discourage those actions, believing that at the right time the rank and file of the party shall decide on a candidate that we should all support.
I appeal to the NPP family to tone down on the politics a bit in honor of a man who sacrificed and paid his due to the party at this time as the family prepares for a befitting burial. Let us join the family mourn a brother, a father, a husband, a gentle soul who loved humankind extremely.
LYDIA ALHASSAN.
Source: BestNewsGH.com
