The Ghana Freedom Party (GFP) has officially endorsed the National Democratic Congress (NDC) ahead of the 2024 general election.
This decision follows the disqualification of the GFP’s presidential candidate, Philip Appiah Kubi, also known as Roman Fada, by the Electoral Commission (EC) on November 12.
Kubi’s candidacy was invalidated due to irregularities and errors on his presidential nomination forms, after the sudden death of the GFP’s originally approved presidential candidate, Akua Donkor.
At a media briefing on Wednesday, December 4, Jerry Addo, the Deputy General Secretary of the GFP, explained that the party arrived at the decision to support the NDC after extensive consultations with its executives.
Addo cited the NDC’s policies, particularly its plans to establish a Women’s Development Bank and scrap the payment of academic fees for first-year tertiary students, as key factors influencing the GFP’s endorsement.
“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.”