{"id":98449,"date":"2025-10-14T05:18:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=98449"},"modified":"2025-10-14T05:18:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:18:00","slug":"speaker-election-adwoa-safo-never-voted-for-me-bagbin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=98449","title":{"rendered":"Speaker election:\u00a0\u2018Adwoa Safo never voted for me\u2019 \u2013 Bagbin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has finally addressed one of the most persistent political rumours in Ghana\u2019s Fourth Republic \u2014 the claim that former Dome-Kwabenya MP, Sarah Adwoa Safo, crossed party lines to vote for him during the dramatic election that made him Speaker of the 8th Parliament.<\/p>\n

Mr Bagbin, who was elected Speaker in January 2021 after a tense and chaotic voting process, said the long-held belief that an NPP MP voted for him is true \u2014 but it was not Adwoa Safo.<\/p>\n

Speaking when the family of Apostle Kwadwo Safo paid a courtesy call on him in his office on Monday, October 13, the Speaker dismissed the speculation and publicly cleared the former lawmaker of any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI call her my daughter because when I came to Parliament, she was a small girl. So, I began calling her my daughter before she joined politics and entered Parliament. But we belong to different political traditions,\u201d Mr Bagbin said.<\/p>\n

He explained that his close personal relationship with Adwoa Safo might have led many to assume she was the one who defied her party during the historic Speaker election.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause she is my daughter and we love each other, when I was contesting to be Speaker, they thought she voted for me,\u201d he clarified.<\/p>\n

Mr. Bagbin\u2019s remarks finally put to rest years of speculation that shadowed Adwoa Safo\u2019s political career and triggered divisions within the New Patriotic Party following the razor-thin outcome of the 2021 Speaker election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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