Former Dome-Kwabenya MP, Sarah Adwoa Safo, has claimed that internal party machinations contributed to her defeat in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary primary.

According to her, some party officials deliberately worked against her, believing she had not treated them well.

Despite her efforts to make amends, she said their actions ultimately cost her the election.

“That’s what I think the party misunderstood me on and decided to punish me, and that cost me my primary,” she said on Tuesday, February 18.

Adwoa Safo lost the NPP parliamentary primary on January 27, 2024, to Mike Oquaye Jnr., CEO of the Free Zones Authority, who secured 1,194 votes.

She came in second with 328 votes, while Sheela Oppong Sakyi finished third with just over 100 votes.