To him, Nana Addo remains a threat to the general elections on December 7 explaining that his position at the signing of the peace pact can endanger the nation.
The signing of the peace pact by the Ex-Presidents and Presidential candidates vying for the Presidential seat is a brainchild of the National Peace Council (NPC) and Manhyia Palace.
The initiative is to bring together all the former Presidents, Presidential candidates and other key figures to drive home the spirit of unity in order to promote peace before, during and after the general elections.
The occasion saw in attendance former Presidents J.A Kufour and J.J Rawlings, seven 2012 Presidential candidates, President of the National House of Chiefs, Chairman of the Electoral Commission, and Inspector General of Police at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in the Ashanti regional capital, Kumasi.
Okudzeto Ablakwa in an interview with Joy FM noted that Nana Addo’s remarks of maintaining peace during the 2012 elections were in a distasteful manner.
Nana Addo in his declaration alluded to some turbulent actions that were meted out to his party supporters at Asutifi South by NDC functionaries and the inadequate investigations into an audio tape containing the voice of a leading member of the National Democratic Congress, Yaw Boateng Gyan, which proved that the ruling party was recruiting party loyalists into the Bureau of National Investigation.
He believed these incidents have sapped the confidence people reposed in the elections and therefore entreated his competitors for the Presidential slot to ensure their conduct does not ignite anxieties.
But the Deputy Information Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, believes that Nana Addo’s submissions were made on the wrong platform. He explained that the opportunity was given for the Presidential candidates and Ex-Presidents to deliver a peace speech but Nana Addo sought to pose danger to the nation’s peace.
He further asserted that Nana Addo “is living up to his reputation as the most dangerous person in this election” and described as “belligerent” the attitude of Nana Addo on the peace platform.
He continued that the examples used by Nana Addo to buttress his points showed he has “decided to suffer from selective amnesia”.
He also criticized the “All-die-be-die” mantra saying Nana Addo should have been invited for interrogation by the Police service for chanting such words without rendering an apology or withdrawing it.
“We are deeply concerned, we have been discussing among ourselves after Nana Addo’s posture this evening, it is clear that there are worrying days ahead, Nana Akufo-Addo clearly remains a threat to a peaceful election on December 7."
“The same tactics he used in the 2008 elections, refusing to concede and sending his lawyers to court on Sunday to attempt to prevent the Electoral Commissioner from declaring results.”
Okudzeto Ablakwa dreaded it would be dicey for the nation if the governing NDC does not win the December elections because a vote for the New Patriotic Party under the leadership of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo means “there would be a trouble for us.”
He added the NDC will rout the NPP in a landslide and therefore avoid the possibility of a run-off. This he believed is the surest way that “we would be safe, because clearly Nana Akufo-Addo is not committed to the peace building”.
Meanwhile, National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, has debunked the claims by the Deputy Information Minister that the NPP Presidential candidate, Nana Addo’s peace remarks were made on the wrong platform.
Mr. Obetsebi-Lamptey said there are several incidents similar to the instances cited by the party’s flagbearer, currently happening in the country which he accused NDC functionaries to be the perpetrators.
He however pledged his party’s support to combating crimes by prosecuting the perpetrators whether they are NPP loyalists or supporters of the other parties.
Source: Adu Gyamfi Ameyaw
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