Upper East Regional Minister, Tangoba Abayage has hit back at former parliamentary aspirant of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for the Nabdam Constituency and a lecturer at the University for Development Studies (UDS), Dr. Vida Yakong.
This comes after the UDS’ lecturer ridiculed Madam Abayage over her defeat in the Navrongo Central constituency parliamentary elections.
Reacting to Dr. Yakong’s ridicule, the regional minister asserted that Dr. Yakong is not the right person to throw shades at her when she failed twice to win her party’s internal contest.
She contended that unlike Dr. Yakong, she won her party’s internal elections at her first attempt against a giant in politics and went ahead to fiercely contest the main elections against the NDC’s candidate hence she is “far ahead” of the UDS’ lecturer.
Restating her jab at Dr. Yakong in 2019 after she lost woefully in the NDC’s primaries, the minister admonished her to “learn” how to win primaries before she could trade jabs with her.
“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 ‘loss standing’. She should go and learn how to win primaries first. I’m far ahead of her. I repeat my earlier statement: ‘he should learn to crawl before walking’. She’s not there yet!” Madam Abayage said in a post sighted by dreamzfmonline.com.
What has become a trade of salvos between the two prominent female politicians in the Upper East Region started in 2019 when the upper east regional Minister teased the lecturer after she lost in the NDC’s primaries in the Nabdam Constituency.
Madam Abayage had criticized Dr. Yakong for chastising the Akufo-Addo-led administration suggesting that her defeat in the NDC’s primaries was because she focused her attention on criticizing the government to the neglect of her campaign for the NDC’s internal elections and advised the lecturer to “learn to crawl before you walk”.
Dr. Vida Yakong, however, did not react until recently when the minister was also defeated in the December 7 polls.
In a recent statement reacting to the minister’s defeat, Dr. Yakong took a swipe at Madam Abayage for teasing her after she was defeated in 2019.
In the lecturer’s view, the regional minister lacks what it takes to win an election devoid of vote-buying as result, she should not have ridiculed her when she lost in an election which she contested without inducing voters with monies and other valuables.
