Minority parties in Ghana are harmless: Peace Council on snub

Politics of Monday, December 7, 2020

Source: My GH news

2020-12-07

The National Peace Council has said that other minority political parties were rejected in the peace pact signed before the December 7 elections because they are harmless.

“The minority parties have not really been in the spotlight in recent years and so this year we wanted to focus on these two parties that have been the main source of concern for the entire country. So for this particular peace pact, we narrowed it down to just the NDC and the NPP. ” The Rev. Dr. Ernest Adu-Gyamfi, president of the National Peace Council, said this in an interview with the GBC radio show Behind the News.

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who is the standard bearer of the PNP and former President John Dramani Mahama, the standard bearer of the NDC signed last week a peace pact on behalf of their parties to defend and guarantee peace before, during and after the December 7 elections which are only two days in advance.

Both sides agreed to a six-point resolution read by Chief Justice Kwesi Anin Yeboah, and witnessed by Sheikh Dr. Osman Nuhu Sharubutu, the National Chief Imam, the Rev. Dr. Ernest Adu-Gyamfi, President of the National Peace Council , among other high-profile personalities. and representatives.

This is not the first time that the country’s main political parties have signed a peace agreement before the elections. Similar agreements were signed during the general elections held in 2012 and 2016.

However, in explaining the reasons behind the exemption of the other nine minor parties which include: CPP, NDP, GUM, GFP, APC, GCPP, PPP, LGP and PNC, Reverend Dr. Ernest Adu-Gyamfi revealed that, by series of controls and investigation carried out by the National Peace Council, there is no sign of violence in relation to them.

“The work of the peace council is not just what most people see on the surface. We have an early warning response group spread out across the country and these groups pick up signals and relay them to headquarters. ”

“So far we have not caught any signal that relates to those minor parties, so we are sure that we will not have a problem arising from those areas.” Dr. Ernest Adu-Gyamfi told Ibrahim Oppong Kwarteng, the host of the show.