Member of Parliament for Awutu Senya West, as well as Ghana's foreign minister Hon. Hanna Serwaa Tetteh has said, it is rather a liberation for her to be out of Parliament after the massive defeat of the NDC at the December polls.

The honourable lost the Awutu Senya West seat to George Nenyi Andah, the Former Communication Director of telecom giant MTN, who run for the position on the ticket of the NPP.

George Andah polled 28,867 representing 52.72 percent of total valid votes cast whereas the incumbent MP. Hanna Serwaa Tetteh had 25,664 which is 49 percent.

She said “actually it’s a relief because I remember that I have been in parliament in opposition before in a parliament where we had the first transition in 2001. And I remember that in that parliament even though the numbers were quite tight, it was a very rough experience of the NPP administration that was determined to show up the previous NDC administration that the government had done so much wrong. We were constantly on the defensive and on the same basis that you came to parliament house; you knew that you were continuing to have to defend the administration that I had not been part of and at the same time try to put forth an alternative view of government…So when I look at the composition of the parliament that we have, in some way I feel that I have been spared that for the next four years and that is why I said it was a relief for me.’’

Before the 2016 parliamentary election, outgoing Awutu Senya MP West described her closest contender George Nenyi Andah of the opposition NPP as a novice who can never be threat to her.

“I am the Foreign Minister, I have been Minister of Trade and Industry and I have won this seat twice and I have won an overwhelming mandate in the primaries and I am supposed to be afraid of someone who is, even if you want to be charitable a novice. You [the media] are the people making George Andah somebody, I do not consider him a threat,” she added.

The Honourable was Member of Parliament in the year 2000, 2004, and 2012 representing the Awutu Senya West constituency in the Central Region.

by Salim Abubakr/ghanaguardian.com