“Behind every successful man” they say, “is a woman.” However, in the case of Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa, it’s not just a woman. It’s “a beautiful woman with brains.”
Nuhela Seidu, is the wife of the astute politician who for many years has contributed immensely to the development of Ghana’s democracy.
Recently, the Member of Parliament has actively been opposing the government’s agenda of constructing a national Cathedral; mainly because he firmly believes this is not the right time for such a project, especially when the country is still saddled with economic hardships.
He has also made claims backed by evidence suggesting that the project is fraught with corruption. In his attempt to fight the alleged corruption, the legislator has made some explosive allegations against Reverend Kusi Boateng who is the Secretary to the National Cathedral Board.
In an earlier revelation about the National Cathedral, Okudzeto Ablakwa revealed that a whopping GH$2.6 million was dished out to a company named JNS Talent Centre Limited. Ablakwa’s investigations into the alleged payment led to the discovery of one Kwabena Adu Gyamfi as a director of JNS Talent Centre. Having confirmed the identities of two out of three directors of the centre, Ablakwa went on an expedition to discover the identity of the third director, Kwabena Adu Gyamfi and it was revealed that Reverend Kusi Boateng was the identity behind the name.
Rev Kusi Boateng has dragged Mr Ablakwa to court a number of times in a bid to redeem his reputation which he claims is being tarnished by the North Tongu MP, however, the attempts did not yield the expected results since the cases did not go in his favor.
It has emerged that Nuhela Seidu, wife of North Tongu Member of Parliament, Samuel Okudeto Ablakwa played a part in his recent court victory against Rev. Victor Kusi Biateng, an official of the National Cathedral Board of Trustees.
Her name, along with Raphael Banaagmen, was listed in the final ruling delivered by the court as counsel for the lawmaker.
Nuhela and her colleague were holding a brief for Thaddeus Sory, the substantive lawyer for the MP in his three-pronged legal battle against the clergyman.
Ablakwa won a case in which Kusi Boateng had sought the court to restrict him from further publications of his personal details.
The court, however, dismissed the case stating that the clergyman’s other name Kwabena Adu Gyamfi, which he avers was an alias; was actually a separate individual hence the court ruled that he did not have locus standi to bring a case before it as the real identity of the plaintiff was not clear.
It is the second case Ablakwa has won against Kusi Boateng after a contempt charge against the lawmaker for kicking court summons was thrown out weeks prior. The final case is a defamation suit the clergyman has brought against the MP.
Who is Nuhela Seidu?
Nuhela is a lawyer by training and used to appear on television programs like Law Express.
She married Hon. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa in 2011 in what was said to be a “secret” wedding but which ended up being the talk of town.
She is also the daughter of former NDC Member of Parliament for Wa Central, Hon. M.A. Seidu.
In July 2022, she graduated from the University of California, Berkeley where she earned an LL.M. Degree & two certificates of specialisation in Business Law & Intellectual Property Law.