Former Convention
People’s Party (CPP) parliamentarian for Jomoro in the Western Region, Samia
Nkrumah, has announced she is coming back for the seat she lost in 2012.
However, she declined to state which political
party’s ticket she will be contesting on and insisted Parliament needed a third
voice beyond the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress
(NDC).
“It’s not only about the constituency I
represent, but also about having an independent voice in parliament, I am
motivated to go back for the seat currently being held by the NPP’s Paul Essien
to prove the claim that my defeat in 2012 was biased.
“I also don’t realise my break from
frontline politics, since my flagbearer contest defeat as a disadvantage, I’m
always in touch with my people, I believe we can do good work for the people of
Jomoro, they need someone who has done good work, earned the trust of the
people and thinks of the people, and can always go back,” Ms Nkrumah posited.
She is the daughter of the nation’s first President,
But after serving one term as the Member of Parliament,
She then took her political vocation a notch higher by putting herself up for the contest to lead the CPP ahead of the 2016 elections, but failed in her bid and she was handed a defeat believed to be unexpected, after
