Former presidential candidate for the National Reform Party (NRP), Mr. Goosie Tanoh has stated that his party will partner the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to ensure a first round victory for President John Evans Atta Mills as they did in the second round of the 2008 elections. “We intend to align with the [NDC] in 2012 and we intend for President Mills to win a first round victory,” Mr. Tanoh said on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show. Wednesday. Mr. Goosie Tanoh, a former leading member of the NDC who fell out with former President Rawlings prior to the 2000 General Elections over what he claims was the imposition of the then Vice President Mills on the party however indicated that “for the Reform Party, the NDC represents an ally in a potentially broad progressive front” adding, “in that sense our alliance with the NDC at the moment is a tactical alliance”. He told host of the programme, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah that the reason some of them left the NDC to form the NRP in 2000 was not in protest of the personality of President Mills but the circumvention of the democratic process in electing a leader for the party, insisting “It wasn’t the man, it was the process”. He said the reform party is supporting President Mills because they believe that "realistically" it will take more than just a term for any party to achieve its programmes and that President Mills represents a unifying character who needs to be supported to complete his Better Ghana agenda. Asked whether the party is now at home with the NDC, Mr Tanoh stressed that “We are home to the extent that we did form an electoral alliance with the NDC for the 2008 elections and in that sense we did it because of the programmes that the NDC advanced and also the very strong character of President Mills who we thought had the capacity and has exhibited so far the capacity to lead this country.” He nonetheless flatly denied that his party has merged with the NDC.