Bernard Anvuur-Billy, DFP’s 2008 Parliamentary Candidate for Ayawaso East in the Greater Accra Region and a spokesperson for the group briefing the media yesterday.
Posted on: www.dailyguideghana.com
By William Yaw Owusu
Friday August 4, 2011.
A group of people claiming to be chairmen and leading members of the Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) have pledged their unflinching support for the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) to ensure victory in the 2012 general elections.
According to them although their founder and leader, Dr. Obed Yao Asamoah and some DFP officers have decided to re-join the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), they will not follow them to the NDC but rather help the NPP to unseat their former party in 2012.
At a news conference organized by the group in Accra yesterday, Bernard Anvuur-Billy, who was the DFP’s 2008 Parliamentary Candidate for Ayawaso East in the Greater Accra Region and a spokesperson for the group said “we are working with the NPP in opposition so that together we can work hard to come back to power in 2012.’
According to them, Dr. Obed Asamoah made them to support NPP flagbearer Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo during the 2008 general elections run-off and wondered why their founder would turn around to offer support for a party that hounded them out of their fold even though they admitted that it was the former Attorney-Generals’ constitutional right.
“We want to add our voices and also maintain the promise of our founder Dr. Obed Asamoah made for us to support the NPP presidential candidate Nana Akufo-Addo to 2008. We are still going by that call and there is no turning back for us.”
Mr. Anvuur-Billy said “for us, the NPP is a political force of our choice since our research shows that it is the only political party that can articulate, pursue and implement a political philosophy or agenda that will result in the consistent improvement in the lives of the masses of our people throughout the country.”
He said in arriving at the decision to partner the NPP, they took into consideration “the general poverty growth rate of our people”, adding “we think it is only the NPP under the able leadership of Nana Akufo-Addo which can bring Ghana out of the present economic mess.”
“We vehemently assure the NPP that despite our poor showing during the 2008 elections, which was due to the inability of the DFP to raise funds in time and coupled with other organizational problems, we are now anxiously and zealously hungry for success and are ever prepared to do anything possible within the constitution to help the NPP to come back to power in 2012.”
He said the ten regional chairpersons met in 2009 to take stock and decided that the party needed re-invigoration and they have since been pursuing the agenda of re-building the party.
They said they are grateful to Dr. Obed Asamoah for “providing some of us the needed political platform” which they said “would help us jump to political prominence in the near future”, adding “we wish him the best and pray that the NDC takes good care of him.”
Noel Jean Kwasi Brahimi, DFP’s 2008 Parliamentary candidate for Okaikoi North said Dr. Obed Asamoah and his group should never think that the whole DFP membership will be following them to the NDC because majority of the membership have decided not to go with the founder.
“Dr. Obed Asamoah and others are not in touch with the DFP grass root. We have stayed with them all these years and we know that they with us rather than being with the top executives.”
Some of the members who were present at the news conference were Halida Sichunu, Upper West Regional Chairman; Michael Amoah, Volta Regional Chairman; Daniel Kwarteng, Ashanti Regional Chairman and David Abusa, Upper East Regional Chairman.
The rest were Noel Jean Kwasi Brahimi, 2008 Parliamentary candidate for Okaikoi North, Abass Yakubu Northern Regional Chairman Accra who was represented by Samuel Kwofie and Francis Osei.
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