Chereponi NPP MP is dead
By Awudu Salami Sule,
Ghanadot
Accra, Aug 2, Ghanadot -
Honourable Doris Asibi Seidu,the New Patriotic Party (NPP)
Member of Parliament for Chereponi in the Northern region,
is dead.
Mrs Seidu was pronounced dead last Friday night at the Korle-Bu
Teaching Hospital in Accra after battling with a heart
related illness for some time.
Sources in Parliament disclosed to
Ghanadot that the deceased Member of Parliament had for over
two months absented herself from
parliamentary sittings and it was as a result of her illness.
Close family relatives say they are
suffering from shock at her sudden death. They said,
the 40-year-old MP was recuperating a few weeks after she
had been discharged from the Cardiothoracic Unit of the
Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.
"At the time we all thought she was going to feel better and
start working, death has laid its icy hands on a great
member of our family and we are very shocked
and sad", a close family said.
Reports say the former NPP flagbearer Nana Akufo-Addo
visited Honourable Doris Seidu a few hours before her death
at the hospital.
Mrs Seidu came to Parliament on the ticket of the main
opposition NPP in 2005 and served on the Education and Mines
and Energy committees.
Her good work to her constituents was greatly rewarded when
she retained the seat last year after polling 9,188 out of
the 17,559 valid votes cast, representing 53 percent of the
votes.
Per the constitution of Ghana, the death of the member of
parliament means that a bye-election will be held to find a
replacement for the vacant seat.
Chereponi is seen as a swing constituency, and according to
political pundits, this does not bode well for the NPP,
which won the constituency by a very slim margin.
The constituency is made up of two tribes, the Chokosis and
Kokombas and political analysts argue that the party would
need to get a candidate, who like the former MP, laid claim
to both tribes.
Before becoming an MP, Mrs Seidu was a teacher and social
worker. She is survived by a husband and a child.
Family sources say her burial date
would later be announced.
Ghanadot
