Prof. Akosah Urges NDC/NPP To Stop Registration Violence

Despite concerns raised over violence in the ongoing voters registration exercise, a leading member for the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Prof. Agyeman Badu Akosah, is optimistic the 2012 general election will begin and end peacefully.

Supporters of the National Democratic Congress and the New Patriotic Party have accused each other of allegedly plotting to rig the elections by sponsoring unqualified persons to register to vote on December 7.

Clashes in Ashanti and Greater Accra regions have prompted some peace-loving persons to caution politicians and their followers against disturbing the peace that the nation currently enjoys.

But the former flag bearer strongly believes the elections will not lead the nation into any chaotic situation.

He told Adom News that the two leading political parties should allow officials of the Electoral Commission to do their constitutionally mandated work by successfully compiling the voters register.

Prof. Akosah said agents of the parties at the registration centres should follow the agreed protocol if they suspected any foul-play in the exercise and desist from creating tension.

He was however confident that in spite of the tension and the pockets of violence reported at some centres, the campaigns will go on smoothly, while voting and counting would be peaceful and a winner declared.