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The Minority in Parliament has once again justified the “bloody widow” tag placed on the NPP MP for Ayawaso West Wuogon, Hon Lydia Seyram Alhassan on her day of swearing-in to commence Parliamentary work after winning the incident-fraught by-election, saying it was more "Parliamentary" than the "papa no" phrase bandied in the House recently.

Stoutly defending this was the NDC MP for Tamale Central, Hon Inusah Fuseini, who insisted the “bloody widow” label was not an insult but intended to drive home the point that, the NPP MP, being a widow, did not find it find it necessary to condemn the bloody assault on persons who went to exercise their franchise to choose a leader for the constituency.

Speaking in an interview on Okay FM’s Ade Akye Abia Morning Show, the former Minister of Roads and Highways insisted that it was used to described a circumstance and not attack her person as a Member of Parliament.

“Bloody widow was not an insult; we didn’t insult the woman. People took it out of context . . . she is a widow, she did not kill her husband Agyarko but Lydia Alhassan Seyram did not condemn the bloody assault on persons who went to exercise their franchise to choose a leader for the Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency,” he argued.

“The 'Bloody widow' was intended to convey a sense and so it is different . . . It is not from social media; yes, people might feel that it is too harsh but that was not from social media and that was intended to describe a situation that happened. Nobody called her a bloody MP,” he stressed.

He further explained that calling someone a "bloody widow" will rather strike a question of the intention behind that name than to jump to a conclusion.

Hon Inusah stressed that if indeed the Minority meant to personally rain insults on Hon Seyram, they (Minority) could have easily chosen to do so by settling on a befitting offensive word.

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