Accra: Prior to the 2024 general elections, all eyes were on 'The Bissues' - Charles Bissue and his wife Nana Ama Dokua Asiamah-Adjei - as the couple who were about to make history as the first husband and wife in Ghana's Parliament.
According to Ghana Web, the Bissues did not set the record of being Ghana's first husband and wife in Parliament. They both lost their parliamentary elections. Charles Bissue, the former secretary to the defunct Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), failed to secure a seat in the parliamentary elections.
Unknown to the public, a couple who nobody was paying attention to, and the majority of the public did not know were an item, 'the Dafeamekpors', were quietly striving to set this record. The Dafeamekpors, consisting of Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, now Majority Chief Whip and South Dayi Member of Parliament, and his wife, actor cum politician Ebi Bright, nearly became Ghana's first husband and wife duo in Parliament.
The Dafeamekpors' marriage became public knowledge after a birth message from Rockson-Nelson to Ebi Bright. At one point, it appeared they might set this historic record when Ebi Bright was declared the winner of the parliamentary election she contested in.