{"id":1001373,"date":"2022-02-23T13:54:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T13:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/23\/adwoa-safos-absence-freddie-blay-drops-more-details\/"},"modified":"2022-02-23T13:54:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T13:54:09","slug":"adwoa-safos-absence-freddie-blay-drops-more-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/23\/adwoa-safos-absence-freddie-blay-drops-more-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Adwoa Safo&#8217;s absence: Freddie Blay drops more details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"521\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-310-696x521.png\"   alt=\"National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Freddie Blay\" title=\"Freddie Blay\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Freddie Blay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The national chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Freddie Blay, has mounted a spirited defense for Dome-Kwabenya Member of Parliament, Sarah Adwoa Safo.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the embattled MP took a leave of absence to address some health issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that she [Adwoa Safo] asked for a period off to take care of some health issues and so let\u2019s not make any hasty decisions \u2026we must appreciate the situation she also finds herself,\u201d Mr Blay said in an interview on Accra-based Asaase radio.<\/p>\n<p>The legislator has come under fire for neglecting her parliamentary duties. There are speculations that she has vowed not to return until she is given a leadership role in the August House.<\/p>\n<p>This has infuriated some colleague MPs and members of the NPP who are calling for her removal.<\/p>\n<p>But the NPP Chairman is begging for clemency for Adwoa Safo who he said is dealing with personal issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is unfortunate that Adwoa Safo\u2019s matter is in the public domain but I will like to say that at the end of the day Parliamentary proceedings must continue; a resolution will be reached,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Blay was certain the Dome-Kwabenya MP will soon return to represent her people in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe [Adwoa Safo] represents a people, a constituency. She is there [in Parliament] to advocate for their issues and implement government\u2019s developmental agenda and so she owes them a duty,\u201d the party chairman said.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"xseYxhCrA2k\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2023 Africa Games: Athletics should be the focus not our parochial interest - LOC - Adom TV (23-2-22\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xseYxhCrA2k?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Freddie Blay The national chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Freddie Blay, has mounted a spirited defense for Dome-Kwabenya Member of Parliament, Sarah Adwoa Safo. According to him, the embattled MP took a leave of absence to address some health issues. \u201cI know that she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1001374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}