Sarah Adwoa Safo, a former Member of Parliament for Dome Kwabenya in the Greater Accra region, has emphasised that the upcoming NPP presidential primary is not a “family and friends” affair.
She has admonished delegates to elect a competent candidate in the person of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, whom she says would help the party to win the 2028 elections, and not someone that will dwindle the party’s fortunes.
Speaking during a campaign tour in her constituency on Sunday, December 14, 2025, Adwoa Safo said “it is Dr. Bawumia’s time.”
She explained that although she has two children with the former Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, who is Bawumia’s main contender, politics is about interest and shouldn’t be reduced to family and friends affair.
“I want you all to know that I’m a politician and Hon. Ken Agyapong is a politician. I know there are many delegates here whose husbands are polling station executives as well as your wives. But you all have your ambitions. So, Hon. Ken has his mind and ambition just like myself.
“In politics, everyone seeks their own interest. I don’t hate Hon. Ken Agyapong. We have two beautiful children, a boy and a girl. But what we are doing here is not family and friends,” Adwoa Safo stated.
The former Minister of Gender and Social Protection added that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) indulged in family and friends which cost them the last elections, a practice she admonished party members to learn from, in order not to perpetuate their stay in opposition.
“We went to do family and friends in government which is the consequence of us being in opposition today so need to learn from opposition. So I won’t do family and friends at the party level because we did same in government and it didn’t help us,” she noted.
The NPP’s presidential primary comes off on Saturday, January 31, 2026, with five persons contesting to be elected as flag bearer.
They are former Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia; former Assin Central MP, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, former Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Dr. Bryan Abbey Acheampong, an MP and a former Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, an MP and former Education Minister as well as Kwabena Agyei Agyapong, a former General Secretary of the NPP.
