Ghana Election: Ghana Freedom Party endorses NDC
A small Ghanaian party, the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP), has announced its support for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the country's upcoming general election.
This decision comes after the Electoral Commission's disqualification of the GFP's presidential candidate, Philip Appiah Kubi also known as Roman Fada.
The party's leadership says it chose to back the NDC because of its policies, including plans to establish a women's development bank and provide free university education for first-year students.
At a press briefing on Dec 4, Jerry Addo, the Deputy General Secretary of the GFP stated that the party's executives underwent extensive consultations before arriving at the decision to support the NDC.
“The Ghana Freedom Party is supporting the candidature of the flagbearer of H.E John Dramani Mahama on Saturday [December 7]. He’s going to capture power to save Ghanaians. And I want to state here and it’s a fact, nobody has coerced us, nobody has influenced us into arriving at this decision.
“We critically examined the manifestoes and policies of the various political parties and even the independent candidates. That is why we have to arrive at this decision very late. Because we just have from today [Wednesday] up to Saturday. It was not easy, we did extensive consultation. And you see, our mother the [late] flagbearer had women at heart.
“And NDC has a campaign policy of establishing the Women’s Development Bank, it was one thing that was vital to our mother. It was crucial to her, why won’t we go that line? Our mother didn’t have formal education and the NDC is promising free tertiary education for first-year students and also the physically challenged. It’s a policy our mother wanted. The policies and vision of the NDC are in line with Ghana Freedom Party,” he added.
Source: Florence Kyei / Lead News Online
