The Ghanaian Journal

The Interim National Chairman of the Democratic Freedom Party (DFP), Alhaji Issah Abdul Rahman has warned the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to rather focus on how it would win the next general elections in 2008 and stop meddling in the affairs of the DFP.

He further warned certain media houses in the country to also give themselves a clean cut vision of what they intend to do and work towards achieving that vision rather than allowing some specific individuals to change their destiny by paying them to do very unpalatable stories against other people.

According to him, certain individuals in the NDC have made it a target to discredit the image of the DFP for no specific reason and this he said, would not serve the best interest of Ghana’s young and delicate democracy.

The DFP Chairman expressed these views in an interview with some journalists in his office in Accra, to react to comments made by some NDC sympathizers and some newspaper publications to the effect that DFP’s interim Women’s Organizer, Frances Asiam’s resignation points to the fact that the party’s chances at succeeding in the current Ghanaian politics are very slim, and that DFP will fade out like all the others after just one attempt at elections.

He said, DFP cares a lot about the welfare of its members and that it will not coerce any of its members to pretend to be well and hold a position just in the name of politics. He said the party will not behave like the ostrich to bury its head in the sand and pretend nothing was happening when in fact the whole world is shaking around it.

“No, the DFP will not descend into the gutters”. He exclaimed, adding that “DFP is well focused and will not allow its attention to be distracted by any bunch of politicians who thinks bad for the party”.

He emphasized that the DFP is in no way obsessed by the NDC, and so the NDC should first think about dealing with its own internal problems which is daring to tear the party apart before it make comments and interfere in other people’s business.

He expressed the hope that DFP will change the political atmosphere in Ghana come December 2008. He said the party is working slowly but steadily and is currently strengthening itself at the ward and constituency level before starting a national “noise making exercise”.

He assured the nation that DFP is the only party that can turn fortunes of the nation around and so they should rush to join it.

By Jeorge Wilson Kingson