According to Ophelia Hayford, who is currently the MP for Nfantseman, fasting on Thursdays was a special ritual her husband didn’t joke with while he was alive.

Mr Hayford was shot by suspected highway robbers in the early hours of October 9, 2020, on the Abeadze Dominase – Abeadze Duadzi – Mankessim Road as he was returning from a campaign trip.

He was reportedly rushed to the emergency ward of Saltpond Municipal Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

He was the New Patriotic Party’s Parliamentary Candidate in the Mfantseman Constituency for the 2020 election until his untimely death.

Sharing memories of him a year after his murder on Adom TV’s Badwam show, Madam Hayford revealed her husband even fasted on the day of his death.

As a couple who were in constant touch while her husband was on his campaign, she revealed the deceased broke the fast around 6:00 pm and was murdered at 12 midnight, a sad day she says will be hard to forget.

She said the circumstances leading to her husband’s death have left her an important question for God should she find herself in heaven.

“My husband told me he was coming home and I was sure about that but in order to clear my mind when I meet God, I will ask Him about the ‘home’ my husband was referring to. Was it our home at Kasoa or home in heaven?” she questioned.

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According to her, the late MP had been away for about three weeks for campaign activities in the build-up to the 2020 election.

However, they communicated often for him to update her on the progress of the campaign while she also shared stories from work.

On the day of his death, the ex-police officer noted Mr Hayford called at about 6:00 pm, a few minutes after she had returned from work.

“I sounded dull as we spoke on the phone because I wasn’t too well but to him, it was because I had missed him and that was perhaps my way of getting him to come back home.

“So he assured me that he was going to come back home later that evening because they were left with Dominase and one other place to go,” she recounted on Adom TV’s Badwam show, in commemoration of his one-year anniversary.

Overwhelmed with excitement, Madam Hayford said she could not keep the news to herself so she broke it to their children.

She explained she was so convinced her husband was going to come home that night due to a particular statement he made during their phone conversation.

“He kept saying we shouldn’t open the dogs that night so I was so sure he was going to come home.

“I was sleepy so I went to bed and told the children to call me when he comes but they never did,” she narrated.

“I woke up at 12 midnight to go and urinate and also say my prayers but there was still no sign of him within the period. I the same time, I heard my phone ring and it was a call from the party Chairman.

“I didn’t want to pick because I was wondering why he was calling at such an odd hour but when I did, that was when the news of their attack was broken to me. It was really hard for me to believe so I insisted they rush him to the hospital but I was told my husband was gone.”

Mr Hayford was shot by persons believed to be highway robbers in the early hours of October 9, 2020, on the Abeadze Dominase – Abeadze Duadzi – Mankessim Road on his return from a campaign trip.

Reports say he was shot by the armed men after which he was rushed to the emergency ward of Saltpond Municipal hospital where he was pronounced dead.

He was the New Patriotic Party’s Parliamentary Candidate in the Mfantseman Constituency for the 2020 election until his untimely death.

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Ghanaians are aware of only one widow, Ophelia Quansah Hayford, who the ruling New Patriotic Party(NPP) has selected to replace him as the parliamentary candidate for the upcoming December 7 parliamentary election.

But, according to the woman, who gave her name as Sarah, when the murdered MP met her in 2009, he allegedly told her he had no wife at the time as he’d divorced, hence he was bold to meet her family and ask for her hand in marriage.

She told Kasapa FM‘s Akwasi Nsiah that they got married on June 8, 2013 at a public event that saw them signing their marriage documents at the court and have since been living with the late MP at Tarkwa.

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She claimed that she later got to know that the late legislator was still married to her first wife after the latter called her in 2016 to inform her the late Hayford was still married to her.

Mr Hayford was killed by suspected armed robbers last Friday while returning from a campaign at Abeaze Dominase.