The National Democratic Congress parliamentary candidate for Wa East, Amin Salifu has turned the political heat on the incumbent Member of Parliament asking him to brace himself up for a defeat in the December polls because he is an ‘‘orphan’’. Godfrey Bayong Tangu, the incumbent told the constituents in 2008 that voting for an NDC candidate will mean voting for an orphan who has no president in office. He said the NPP was in power and a vote for him will be a vote for development in the constituency. Four years on, Amin Salifu said it is his government which is in power and the constituents must not make any mistake of voting for an orphan. Addressing an enthusiastic crowd of NDC supporters at Chaggu where sixty-seven members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) defected to the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Salifu recalled the campaign mantra in the run up to the 2008 general elections in which he (Amin Salifu) was an orphan because he wasn’t in the same party with Mr. Kufuor then as president. Mr. Salifu said juxtaposing those statement of his opposite number in the New Patriotic Party means that his reign as an MP is about coming to an end because he (Salifu) has a ‘‘father in the presidency.’’ ‘‘He is an orphan; the place is not an orphanage and so he should come home. I have a father there in the person of president John Dramani Mahama. It is not a concocted statement; that was his mantra and that argument still holds,’’ he reminded the gathering. Mr. Salifu who also doubles as the District Chief Executive for the Wa East appealed to the electorates to move beyond ethnic lines and vote for a candidate that brings development to them. ‘‘The election is neither about ethnicity nor voting for your son. It is about who has made life easier for you in terms of giving free food to your kids at school; building schools in your area, giving you portable drinking water and above all who has made life easier for you in terms of development. In any case if you are voting for your sons, vote for your grand sons too I am one of you and I have demonstrated beyond all reasonable doubt that I am a performer,’’ he appealed. He said the government, realizing that the district is the breadbasket (35% of the food in the region is produced from there) of the region has brought some good policies in the agriculture sector and has given fertilizers at subsidized rates. He said the programme has yielded the desired results with the youth in the district now seeking a better fortune in the district than looking elsewhere. The Wa East constituency secretary of the NDC, Mr. Munawar Issahaque said the party will do its campaign devoid of insults and rancor and appealed to other political parties especially the NPP to also do same in order to have peaceful polls in December. ‘‘Our politics is not about insults or hurling invectives on one another. It is not about how big or small a candidate is. You have seen the performance of all the candidates. It is time to choose the best and not insults’’. He appealed to the defectors to close their ranks and work hard in order for the party to win party in the December general elections. The leader of the defectors, Abubukar Sena said they have seen the tremendous development that the NDC has brought to them and that has motivated them to join the NDC. They promised to work with the party in order to ensure total victory for president Mahama and Amin Salifu.