UFP activates offices

The United Front Party (UFP) is progressively making efforts to activate its offices in all 10 regions in the country, its National Chairman, Nana Agyenim Boateng, has disclosed.

Currently, he said, the party, which recently inaugurated its national headquarters in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region, opened offices in the three northern regions, Ashanti, Brong Ahafo, Eastern regions.

“We are now in the process of establishing offices in the Western and Central regions by the end of this year,” he stated.

 In an interview with the Daily Graphic in Accra, Nana Boateng said, “With such progress, we have almost met the Electoral Commission’s (EC) mandate to all political parties to get adequate offices in all the 10 regions by December this year.”

“Besides our regional offices, the UFP has also set up 87 district offices across the country and this makes UFP a credible party,” he stated.

He was sharing light on the various preparations the UFP was making to become competitive and wrest power in the upcoming 2016 general election.

 Competent human resources

Nana Boateng stated that the UFP, besides its aggressive bid to establish itself adequately in all the regions, had what it took to compete keenly in next year’s general election.

“Currently, as a party, we have in our midst renowned agriculturalists, doctors, economists, businessmen, industrialists, traders and other able men and women.

“With these credible men and women at our service, we are going all out to contest the 2016 polls and wrest power from President John Dramani Mahama,” he stated.

 Ready for power

Sharing his views on the party’s readiness to compete in the next election, he described the 2016 general elections as “a clear battle between the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the UFP.”

“As the only political party with its national headquarters in the Ashanti Region, the UFP has a united front and is more than poised to wrest power from the NDC.”

He described other opposition parties, particularly the New Patriotic Party (NPP), as not being serious to contest the upcoming elections.

For instance, he said the increasing factionalism within the NPP, which he said was between the flag bearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, and former President John Agyekum Kufuor, undermined its chances to win power in 2016.

“When you look at what is happening among the rank and file of the NPP, they are not united and ready to come to power,” he stated.

“But  the UFP, is so much poised for power and just as we helped former President Kufuor to win power in 2000, it was now time to win power for ourselves,” the UFP national chairman stated.