Newsroom Poverty Pushed Me Into Politics - Suhuyini
Member of Parliament(MP) for Tamale North, Alhaji Alhassan Sayibu Suhuyini, has disclosed that he decided to run for political office as a conduit to run away from rising demands from people who thought his. . .
Member of Parliament(MP) for Tamale North, Alhaji Alhassan Sayibu Suhuyini, has disclosed that he decided to run for political office as a conduit to run away from rising demands from people who thought his proximity to political leaders meant he could solve all their problems. He says he did that with the hope of losing in order to use the story to run away from the demands people made of him. Speaking at the launch of Newsroom Poverty, a book written by Abdul Hayi Moomen, the lawmaker said, “they just come, and they are waiting for you at the reception, and sometimes the aroma at the reception changes and becomes uncomfortable. People sometimes always mistake popularity for wealth and fortune. They listen to you interview businessmen and political actors and in their mind they are your friends; they are people you can ask for anything to solve their problems and so they come with all sorts of problems. So I used to operate a clinic at Radio Gold even before I joined politics. One day I sat back and talked to myself about joining politics to wield the power to solve problems. In my mind, I was hoping that when I came for the elections, they would not vote for me so that when they come to worry me next time I will say that is why I said you should vote for me and I will help, but you didn’t vote for me. I joined the campaign not hoping to win; I joined to get a message that when people come to me, I will use it, but I won, and I have been winning, and I am here. The poverty in the newsroom chased me into the headache of politics, and I am happy that we are launching this book that will begin a conversation on this important issue,” he said.