Ex-President John Agyekum Kufour has admonished all
2012 Presidential candidates to revere the choice of the electorates come
December 7 in order to safeguard the peace of nation.
To him, “anybody wanting to lead us must submit to
our choice; we must vote for him or her to become President just like when we
get fed up with him, we go again to vote to take him out of power to put
another person there.”
He entreated all the eight Presidential candidates
contesting in the 2012 elections to ensure that the elections are secure in
order to enhance national peace.
Addressing a gathering at the signing of a peace
pact in Kumasi on Tuesday, November 27, former President Kufour pointed out the
essence of the power invested in the electorates saying “from history, people
have done all sorts of things to secure power. Some will kill, some will lie,
some would do anything, anything, buy to get the power... but power belongs to
the people.”
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.
President Kufour in his address also called on the
Presidential aspirants to be vigilant and ensure that the peace of the nation
is maintained through the elections.
He warned them against any misconduct emphasizing
that “If at the end of the day, the vote is not secured this way, if
substantial numbers of the people will begin to feel that they have been
cheated one way or the other, I assure you the grumbling might degenerate into
untold difficulties for the entire nation.”
Source: Adu Gyamfi Ameyaw
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