NPP makes Adwoa Safo the first ever female deputy majority leader in parliament
The Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya, Sarah Adwoa Sarfo has been confirmed as the deputy Majority leader in the seventh Parliament which commences on the 7th of January 2017.
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Adwoa Safo who will be assisting the current minority leader in Ghana’s next parliament, Hon Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu. She is the first female in Ghana’s history to occupy the position.
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According to credible sources, the National council of the party unanimously settled for her at a meeting today in Accra
35-year-old Safo is the daughter of inventor and head of the Kristo Asafo Church, Apostle Kwadwo Safo Kantanaka. A lawyer by profession, she first entered parliament in 2012 on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) after failing to get the nod in 2008 against Prof. Mike Ocquaye.
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Adwoa Safo polled more than 60,000 votes to beat her closest contender in the NDC to win the 2016 parliamentary elections conclusively. Adwoa Safo is single but has two children with controversial Assin-North Member of Parliament, Kennedy Ohene-Agyepong
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Source: YEN.com.gh
