I have the competence; I will win Adentan seat for NDC - Oye Lithur brags

Former Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur, says she is the best candidate to represent the NDC in the parliamentary contest at the Adentan constituency promising victory for the largest opposition party in the country, ABC News can report.

The aspiring MP is touting her credentials as a champion of human rights, a trustworthy person and an astute corporate lawyer among others as basis for which she should be chosen ahead of her closest rival and former candidate of the party, Mohammed Adamu Ramadan.

“I am telling the delegates that I am the trusted candidate. I am the unifier, I have the competence, I have the experience and also I will work and strengthen Adenta and very importantly, together with all NDC, we will win the Adentan seat come December 2020 and we will together take that seat for the NDC so that we will have good governance”, she said.

She added that she will soon enter the history books of Ghana as the first female MP for the Adentan constituency.

“I will be making history because I will be the first woman ever to take that seat. I have worked hard in the private sector as a corporate lawyer. I have championed rights. In all these various capacities, I have reached the pinnacle and I have worked hard,” she opined.

Her confidence is rock solid but how about the reality of winning the seat?

Not many, even within her party, believe she can beat the NPP’s Yaw Buaben Asamoah. Former parliamentary aspirant of the NDC for the area, Adamu Ramadan, who barely lost the seat believes Oye Lithur to be a wrong choice for the party. He says the gender activist is out of touch with the party as far as issues pertaining to the constituency are concerned.

Adamu Ramadan who is brother to Second Lady Samira Bawumia as well as deputy Nadmo boss, Abu Ramadan is confident of victory this time round adding that he has taken note of all mistakes made in the 2016 general elections.

Adamu Ramadan, though an NDC member, may rejoice in the words of the NPP’s Kennedy Agyapong who has described Nana Oye Lithur as a “shameless opportunist”.

According to Kennedy Agyapong, her loud silence following some abusive and ethnocentric comments made by Prophet Badu Kobi, the leader of the Glorious Wave Church International smacks of hypocrisy.

“Women activists like Nana Oye Lithur, when I made remarks about Charlotte Osei, she was able to organise Queenmothers, women, against me. Where is Nana Oye Lithur? Where is she? Nana Oye Lithur is a shameless opportunist. Where is she, if indeed, she is fighting for women? Where are the Queen Mothers in this country? Where are they? Do we really have women in this country to take on this guy?