The Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) has announced that it is positioned to contest every single seat in the 230 constituencies nationwide.

According to the DFP's Greater Accra Regional Chairman, Nikoi Addison, the party is also in that same spirit ensuring to have party presence in the form of constituency office in every constituency in every region before the elections, affirming that as at date, the DFP already has that visibility in over 80 per cent of the constituencies, particularly in terms of structures, offices and constituency executives.

"As a serious and active political party, we are contesting all 230 seats nationwide; and we are also ensuring that we keep a visible party presence in terms of structures, constituency offices as well as constituency executives and foot soldiers. And we are sure to make a strong showing in the forthcoming elections," Addison told GO in a chat over the weekend in Accra.

The DFP, he reiterated is also set in picking seats in Brong-Ahafo, the three Northern regions, Volta and Western regions in the forthcoming elections. In Greater Accra, he was also confident about causing surprises in Ashaiman, Odododiodioo, Ablekuma South, Weija, Dome¬ Kwabenya, Obom-Domiabra, Trobu-Amasaman, Okai Koi South, East and Central Ayawaso and Adenta.

The party, he assured supporters and the nation, is also fighting tooth and nail to break the myth about the NDC in Anloland. As far as he was concerned, NDC strength in the other constituencies in the Volta Region is diminishing.

According to him, the NDC ethnic propaganda used by agents of NDC in causing disaffection against other tribes and non-NDC political parties are fading, adding that the ordinary voter in the Volta Region is no longer seeing the NDC the way it used to see it in 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004 as well as the current elections.

So much ground work has been done in these constituencies that the DFP hopes to reap the ultimate political fortunes in the December elections, he predicted.

Contributing to the need for the nation to have credible and peaceful; and a sense of tolerance during the electioneering campaign, the DFP Regional Organiser urged the leadership of the other political parties to learn from the decent way they have handled their campaign activities and the discipline with which they have consistently tackled issues rather than attack parties and 'their leading members or Presidential candidates.

He said before people even began talking about a peaceful Election 2008, the DFP had already strategised on how it could peacefully and decently package, sell and reach out to the electorate with its message about issues. He stated that even on the ground among the party's cadres, there is no record of violence and intimidation from its boys against themselves or political opponents, adding that if all political parties acted that way on the ground, the purveyors of strife and political intimidation will find no space to sell their unbeneficial wares.

"So much cash, so much concern, so much time and resources are being expended into ensuring that we go through peaceful elections. The Institute of Economic Affairs, NGOs, churches, traditional and religious as well as opinion leaders these are all calling for peace and tolerance.

Just because some people have the unfortunate belief that Ghana belongs to them. We in the DFP call on the electorate to take note of our singular campaign strategies of peace and political tolerance and draw the fitting conclusions as to what to look for in terms of seeking and where to finger in seeking which parties to dump in the coming elections."

The DFP's last Presidential tour of the Volta Region, he said, brought home the fact to the party that the political turf is rapidly changing, with more and more Ghanaians interested more in the depth and quality of the message of politicians and issues the electorate want addressed, than colours and party slogans, symbols and names.


Source: Observer