Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Former President Kufour calls on Presidential candidates to submit to electorates' choice




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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