[8] In the 2008 elections, the DFP centered its campaigning around promoting agricultural development in Ghana to reduce poverty and hunger in the country.

Given the presidential seat in Ghana, it planned to subsidize agriculture and to place taxes that promoted the purchasing of local commodities over foreign goods.

Specifically, Mr. Ansah-Antwi mentioned the importance of creating jobs to employ the Ghanaian youth: “my interest is in the youth and I want to lead this country so that each and everyone could meet their physiological needs — food, shelter and clothing.” Mr. Ansah Antwi was also critical of the socio-economic system placed on the country by previous colonial rulers.

[10] The party is scheduled to hold its first congress in March 2008 in the lead up to presidential and parliamentary elections due in December 2008.

In October 2011 however, it was announced that the DFP was merging with the National Democratic Congress, the party from which it was originally formed.