Proverbial ABA Fuseini Lost His Seat Because He’s Poor – Bernard Mornah Claims | Politics

The sitting Member of Parliament for Sagnarigu constituency, Alhassan Bashir Fuseini, popularly referred to as Alhaji A.B.A Fuseini, will not return to Parliament in 2025.

The lawmaker sadly misplaced his seat throughout Saturday’s primaries organized by the Nationwide Democratic Congress (NDC).

He polled 333 votes whereas his opponent, Atta Issah obtained overwhelming votes by polling 801 to emerge winner to contest the 2024 elections on the ticket of the social gathering.

The opposite contenders Yakubu Ahmed, Abdul Majeed Alhassan and Hamza Bukari Zakaria polled 118, 42 and 27 votes respectively.

The NDC Parliamentary election leads to the Sagnarigu constituency got here as a shock as supporters of the social gathering and his colleagues in Parliament puzzled what might have been the rationale for the defeat of Alhaji A.B.A Fuseini.

However former PNC Nationwide Chairman, Bernard Mornah has revealed the principle cause that led to the defeat.

He disclosed on Peace FM’s “Kokrokoo” morning present that the incumbent MP was voted out as a result of he’s poor.

In accordance with him, there are occasions it grew to become very troublesome for the MP to seek out cash for transportation to his constituency, thus this mainly contributed to his loss.

“I feel considered one of his main flaws is that Alhaji merely was poor by way of cash. He has no cash…There are cases that Alhaji desires to go his constituency and he can be struggling to earn a living to go to his constituency”, he mentioned.

He puzzled how the delegates anticipated Alhaji A.B.A Fuseini to spend on them because it has been the tradition in Ghana’s politics to see aspirants financially inducing electorates to vote for them.

“The person did not have. How would he give one thing that he did not have?”, Bernard Mornah expressed as he pitied the MP.