UPPER WEST REGIONAL SECRETARY OF DFP RESIGNS (PAGE 15)

THE Upper West Regional Secretary of the Democratic Freedom Party (DFP), Mr Matthew Bonye, has resigned from his position.
“I have also terminated my membership of the DFP with immediate effect and joined the National Democratic Congress (NDC),” he said in a statement issued in Wa.
He called on all the membership of the DFP to re-examine the party’s conduct and follow his line of action to the NDC.
“Other colleagues and I who joined the DFP from the NDC are apologising to the NDC leadership, especially former President J.J. Rawlings, who made us what we are today to forgive us for the unexamined decision we took to join the DFP. We are back,” Mr Bonye said emphatically.
He was one-time the PNDC District Secretary for Lawra and later the Upper West Regional Secretary of the NDC.
He fell out with the NDC when Dr Obed Asamoah, a former National Chairman of the party, broke away from the NDC to form the DFP.
The General Secretary of the DFP, Mr Bede Ziedeng, welcomed Mr Bonye’s decision and wished him well in his political career.
In a telephone interview from Wa, Mr Ziedeng described Mr Bonye’s decision as a personal one.
He gave the assurance that the DFP was in the process of reorganising to continue to function as a formidable political party.
Meanwhile, reliable sources close to the Upper West Regional executives of the NDC have given the assurance that since politics is about numbers, there is no way they will turn their back on people who wish to join the party.
They said Mr Bonye and many others who left the party were not new faces in the NDC and, therefore, they were always welcome.