The Minster of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Otiko Afisah Djaba has apologised to Ghanaians for her recent spat with the Northern Regional Chairman of the NPP, Daniel Bugri Naabu.
According to her, she felt the incident with Mr Naabu had the tendency to undermine the fight for gender parity since there has been so much focus on her personality, which may get the message of the vulnerable lost, hence her apology.
Her apology comes after President Nana Akufo-Addo summoned the two to the Flagstaff House on Monday to settle their differences.
Ms Djaba and Mr Naabu have been engaged in a war of words since last Friday after the latter, in the company of some party sympathisers, disrupted a meeting organised by the former in the Northern Regional capital of Tamale.
According to Mr Naabu, Ms Djaba disrespected his authority by failing to inform him about the meeting, which he believed was a plot to undermine the Presidents’ nominee to head the school feeding programme in the region.
It took the intervention of the police to avoid clashes between supporters of the two.
In her defence, the Gender Minister who is also the National Women's Organiser of the NPP, said she was in Tamale to meet women groups on behalf of the First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo and it had nothing to with the school feeding programme.
Speaking in an interview on Pulse on Joy News TV Tuesday, the Gender Minister stated President Akufo-Addo had intervened in the matter and she had dropped the feud with the Northern Regional chairman.
"This is a family matter and what has been done has been done. We need to move on as a people. You learn from things that happen to you. That is the most important thing", she said.
Explaining why she had to enagage Mr Naabu in such a manner, she said the 'fight' was not a personal one but one based on her convictions as a gender activist as he [Naabu] was trying to bully and disrespect her because she was a woman.
"It's not about me. It's about all the children, women and the vulnerable who are being discriminated [against] and being rejected by society", she explained.
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