POLLS, BIG TEST FOR US ALL (Frong Page 1B)

04/12/2008
Story: Mary Mensah
The Presidential Candidate of the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP), Mr Ward Brew has called on all Ghanaians to be very careful about their temperament and reactions during the elections.
He said the Sunday’s election is a very historic event in the life of this great nation and provocation’s can come from all angles despite preparations made to ensure peace.
Mr Ward Brew said everybody is vulnerable but it behoves all to be on guard to avoid any misunderstanding.
He said politics is like a game of sport which must always produce a winner and a loser and if one becomes victorious that does not mean that his opponent is not important or not needed.
‘We need both winners and losers to make the cycle complete and in a democracy the most difficult challenge is how to co-exist with the person you have defeated in an election”, he said.
On his chances, Mr Ward Brew said he has already won the elections because if you go underground you will see that people are clamouring for a party like the DPP without any baggage.
He said people want a fresh start, a new development and a party that will reconcile the whole nation not to divide it.
“When elected as president of this great nation I will put in place a national government which will reconcile the whole nation, all political groups and heal all wounds”, he said.
According to him the CPP government left the country divided and the NDC also followed up by dividing the country and there has been criticisms about sale of government institutions between them and the NPP.
He said the criticisms that characterised the national award in July this year which forced some sections to boycott it shows that all is not well and we need to unite as a country because divided we fall.
He craved the indulgence of the other political parties to stop attacking each other with their adverts in the media and added that all campaign promises cannot materialised in an atmosphere of rancour.
He said society is made up of the living, the dead and the deities and they all have a a role to play in who should lead the country.
Mr Ward Brew indicated that DPP is like King David in the bible, where when God sent Samuel to his fathers house to find a successor to Saul he was not brought forward because he was a non entity but it turn out that he was the chosen one and “though we appear like a non entity, the seat belongs to us because we are the chosen ones”.