Bede Ziedeng upbeat about winning Lawra-Nandom seat

THE Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) parliamentary aspirant for Lawra-Nandom, Mr Bede Ziedeng, is hopeful of snatching the seat at the December legislative poll from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) which has held it since 1992.
His confidence stems from the enthusiastic support that greeted him during a recent five-day tour of the constituency which took him to communities such as Mettoh, Gbieri, Yikpee, Konyikuo and Tolibri, all in Lawra, and Bapile, Tampelle, Ketuo, Goziri and Kamba, all in Nandom.
Mr Ziedeng, who briefed the Daily Graphic on his campaign trip to the constituency in the Upper West Region, described the reception he received as overwhelming, saying it was an indication of the people’s total confidence in him.
He noted that the DFP’s parliamentary aspirants in Nadowli East, Mr James Worr, and Nadowli West, Mr Joachim Ambaseu, aka Solaa, were receiving similar enthusiastic support from the electorate.
He said he had rounded up the first leg of his campaign in the constituency, which took him to more than 41 communities, and that he would begin the second leg in the next couple of weeks.
Sounding confident, Mr Ziedeng, who is also the General Secretary of the DFP, noted that the two thematic messages of his campaign were based on peace and unity for accelerated development and the eradication of poverty, illiteracy and disease which he promised to champion through his party’s green revolution concept by developing the agricultural sector.
According to him, the DFP represented faith in political leadership and also offered itself as the only party that represented a credible alternative to the NDC and the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
“The DFP is the only party in Ghana today that can silence the unnecessary political bickering between the NDC and the NPP if it is elected to power,” he stressed.
Touching on his past achievements which could secure him victory, Mr Ziedeng, who catalogued his political achievements from 1979 when he was part of the revolutionary process during which the constituency witnessed significant development, said as one of the first assembly members, he served as a legal advisor to the district assembly, as well as helped in the drafting of most bye-laws of the assembly, not to mention his contributions as a former deputy regional minister for Upper West under the erstwhile NDC administration.
On the election of parliamentary candidates for the election, Mr Ziedeng said more than 100 parliamentary aspirants had so far been elected but noted that the DFP would not field candidates in all the 230 constituencies, adding that parliamentary primaries were expected to end by the close of this month.
He called on the electorate to vote for candidates who were capable and competent enough to perform, instead of voting for persons on the basis of party symbols and slogans.