Former Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection under the erstwhile Mahama administration, Nana Oye Lithur has asked for forgiveness from everyone she may have offended.
According to the human rights lawyer, she is human and may have stepped on some toes in line of her duty whether in the past or present hence her apology.
Speaking in an interview on Inside Politics on Power 97.9 FM, Oye Lithur, who is seeking to be elected as a parliamentary candidate for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) at the Adentan Constituency, told host Mugabe Maase it was necessary to ask for forgiveness.
“I have gone rounds in the Adentan Municipality and realized that many people listen to Power FM so there is no bigger platform to express myself than here, so all that I am saying is that we are human beings and you know to err is human and to forgive is divine” she added.
According to her, she would go for the Adenta constituency to possibly take back the seat from the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2020 general election.
The Adenta parliamentary seat is one of the swing parliamentary seats in the Greater Accra Region.
The two major political parties, the NDC and the NPP had both held the seat since it was carved out from the Ashaiman constituency in 2004.
The seat is such that, no elected Member of Parliament had ever held it in two terms in office, except the NDC that managed to retain it but certainly not with the same candidate.
The late Opare Hammond of the NPP, won the seat in 2004 and was the first MP but served only one term.
He was kicked out at a national election in 2008 by Mr Kojo Adu Asare of the NDC, but he too did not stay on beyond a term as he was overthrown by his own party man, Emmanuel Nii Ashimoore, in 2012 at the party primaries and went on to retain the seat for the NDC.
Just like his predecessors, Nii Ashimoore too lost the battle at the party primaries in 2015 by Mohammed Adamu Ramadan of the NDC, but unlike Ashimoore who managed to keep the seat after overthrowing his own man Adu Asare, Ramadan failed and Yaw Buabeng Asamoah of the NPP snatched it in2016.
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Now she wants to be elected to parliament so he has suddenly realized how humility and apology are important. Ghanaians are not as f00l!sh as people like Oye and her NDC think. Let her go and apologize to her husband rather, That will serve her better.
Ahhhhhh, when did you realize that? Now that you want to be MP? NEVER!
.....then you have a lot of work to do because that station is not credible and not popular so start hitting all the cities, towns and villages to render an unqualified apology every Ghanaian because you offended all. Again, you are very selective fighting for women who are "attached" by mean. I remember you did your best to DEMONSTRATE against KEN for insulting Charlotte Osei. Recently you took it for a whole WORLD CUP to again DEMONSTRATE against NANA ADDO for stating the obvious truth that not many women are found in POWER circles where decisions are made. However, you have pretended to hear, see and DEMONSTRATE against a wayward pastor who gave a deadly BLOW to women from three tribes to the effect that EWEs are DOORMAT, FANTEs are FOOOOOOOOOLLLLISH and ASHANTEs are GREEDY, PROPERTY CONSCIOUS ably supported by REMOTE mothers. Madam you are known for fighting for women but on this occasion you are selectively silent. So for your apology to be complete get up and make your opinion known.
I HOPE THOSE YOU OFFENDED WILL FORGIVE YOUR BCOS, TO ERR IS HUMAN AND TO FORGIVE IS DEVINE. GOOD YOU HAVE APOLOGISED.
Oh, Oye I don't even you at all! Did you say something about the insulted women. I will only believe your apology to be genuine if you add your voice theirs. It will haunt you any time, anywhere, especially when campaigns heat up. Do the honourable thing; organise the women groups, queen mothers, etc. and lead a demonstration. I wish you all the best, though!
Now that you're offering yourself as a parliamentary candidate, you have been advised to beg Ghanaians before you can win. Have you forgotten how you made your deputy a receptionist at your ministry whiles your security man had to carry your shoes as you were on cloud 9. Only time will tell