Ghanaian media responsible for my woes in politics - Victoria Hamah

Victoria Lakshmi Hamah, former Deputy Communications Minister under the erstwhile John Dramani Mahama administration is blaming the media for her woes in politics culminating into her premature retirement.

Ms. Hamah came into the political limelight in 2012 elections when she contested for a parliamentary seat on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Ablekuma West Constituency of the Greater Accra Region, but lost to another heavyweight Ursula Owusu, now Communications Minister.

She tried staging a comeback in 2016 this time in the Kintampo North Constituency of the then Brong Ahafo Region which is her hometown but was humiliated at the party’s parliamentary primaries.

But reacting to her challenges in politics on Good Evening Ghana monitored by MyNewsGh.com, she disclosed that the media is partly to blame for whatever may have happened to her.

Asked if she could have scaled through the challenges under Mahama administration if she was a man, she answered “not just the Mahama administration, I would have survived the challenges in politics in Ghana”

She then went further to castigate the media for how unfair it treated her citing a publication on news portal that used a generic image of a woman with big buttocks to represent her when the story was about her.

“They took somebody’s buttocks in a red hat. It was not me…it was somebody’s buttocks and that was my face. That is what media is in this country”, the former Deputy Communication Minister angrily revealed.

Victoria Hamah was fired on on Friday, 8 November 2013 due to an audio recording purported to be hers in which she was heard telling an unnamed friend that she would not quit politics until she had made at least one million US Dollars (US $1m).

The conversation also made mentions of other public officials and politicians linked to all kinds of corrupt practices