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Chairman of the People's National Convention (PNC), Bernard Mornah, has asked the Minority in Parliament to apologize to the newly elected Member of Parliament for Ayawaso West Wuogon, Lydia Seyram Alhassan for the high level of discrimination meted against her in Parliament on Tuesday.

Speaking on Atinka FM’s Drive, Mr. Mornah expressed disappointment with the display of “bloody widow” placards in Parliament, saying the attack was "below the belt", since the woman was not responsible for the violence during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election.

"I felt ashamed first as a Ghanaian and the fact that we have lost the sympathy that as Ghanaians we were supposed to show towards a woman who just lost the father of her 5 children. The woman is already traumatized and I don’t think she deserves that,” he said.

Minority MPs in parliament on Tuesday, 5th February, 2019 staged a walkout during the swearing-in of Lydia Alhassan, the newly elected Member of Parliament for the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency.

Minority Chief Whip, Muntaka Mubarak Mohammed, on the floor of parliament, asked permission to boycott the swearing-in in order to solidarize with the victims of the violence that occurred at the La Bawaleshie polling centre during the election.

The Minority, however, displayed placards with the inscription “bloody widow”, an action that has incurred the wrath of several Ghanaians.