DPP to field candidates in all constituencies

Lawyer Thomas Nuako Ward-Brew is the founder and Presidential hopeful of the Democratic Peoples' Party in Ghana

By William Yaw Owusu

Friday July 11, 2008
The Democratic Peoples’ Party says it has completed the selection of about 150 parliamentary aspirants to be registered by the party to contest the December poll on its ticket.

Mohammed Salisu Sulaimana, General Secretary of the DPP in an interview with the Times yesterday said “we have resolved to field candidates in all the constituencies and this is just the beginning of many things to come."

He said the DPP has received requests from aspirants in all the constituencies in the Northern region except Mion where a candidate is yet to be selected while in the Upper east and West Regions two constituencies each are yet to select candidates.

He further said that 60 per cent of the candidates have been selected to contest in Ashanti, Western and Central Regions respectively while the Volta Region has selected about 45 per cent of its candidates.

“We are hoping to select candidates for the whole Greater Accra Region by the end of this months so that they can support us to intensity our campaign.

He said all the candidates selected so far, about 70 per cent are youth, adding the DPP wants to position the youth to enable them to take over the political landscape of this country.”

The West generation has undermined the youth politically but the DPP will offer them the platform to assert their political rights.”

Mr Sulaimana also condemned the recent punishment matted out to drivers by some military personnel saying “I know this was done with the endorsement of the military command but an individual who though he could instill some military discipline in the drivers.”

He also urged the drivers to be law abiding saying “there is too much indiscipline on our roads but this kind of punishment leaves much to be desired.”