A contest of pokes between Upper East Regional Minister Tangoba Abayage and a Senior lecturer at the University for Development Studies Dr. Vida Yakong appears to be far from over.
Tangoba Abayage, a defeated parliamentary candidate of the New Patriotic Party for the Navrongo Central constituency has fired another salvo at her colleague female politician and member of the opposition National Democratic Congress who also failed to win parliamentary primaries of her party in the Nabdam constituency in 2019.
It will be recalled that Dr. Vida Yakong was admonished by Madam Tangoba Abayage to choose her political paths carefully by learning to ‘crawl before walking’ after the lecture lost her second bid to be elected parliamentary candidate of the NDC in her constituency.
Following the defeat of the Regional Minister in the recently held parliamentary elections, she was served with what appeared to be a dose of her own medicine by Dr. Vida Yakong.
“To the lioness who has set a record for distribution of goodies and money to buy delegates in the Navrongo Central Constituency to win primaries, I thought she learned how to ‘crawl before walking. ‘These were your own words a few months ago to a colleague woman who lost primaries.” ” Dr. Vida Yakong wrote.
In a reply, Ms. Abayage reiterated her admonition to Dr. Vida Yakong to ‘learn how to crawl before walking’.
Tangoba Abayage asserted that the defeated NDC parliamentary aspirant cannot claim to be at par with her because she never won her primaries in the first place.
“I’m told one Vida has admonished me that “a calf does not laugh at a hornless cow”. And she thinks she’s the cow? No she’s not. She lost primaries twice to a political midget. I won primaries at my first attempt and went on to fight a fierce battle for the Navrongo Central seat and to quote a good brother of mine: I “lost standing”. She should go and learn how to win primaries first. I’m far ahead of her,” Ms. Abayage wrote.
She added “I repeat my earlier statement: “she should learn to crawl before walking”. She’s not there yet!”.
