The Vice President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, has fired back at the flagbearer of the main opposition New Patriotic Party, Nana Akufo-Addo, for his �All-die-be-die� comments ahead of the December polls.
The Vice President said the 2012 elections �is a non-violent election, I think that electoral processes are supposed to be peaceful.�
He said: �Everybody must go and express who he wants to lead the country, it is not a matter of we should fight each other and so all this sloganeering, and all-die-be-die and so on are absolutely unnecessary.�
�There�s not going to be all die be die, we�re going to have the best election ever held in Ghana this year. We�re going to cooperate with the Electoral Commission and the security agencies to make sure that this is the most peaceful election ever held,� Mr. Mahama added.
Vice President Mahama was speaking when the National Council of Moslem Chiefs paid a courtesy call on him at the seat of government, the Osu Castle, in Accra.
The National Council of Moslem Chiefs has activated a Peace Council to ensure that politicians do not unduly influence persons, especially the youth living in the Zongos to violence during the general elections.
The Council has therefore called on the government to support them to ensure that their initiative of preventing the Zongo community from being influenced by politicians for the wrong reasons is successful.
The Council also amongst others discussed national issues as well as issues peculiar to them including the establishment of an Islamic University, the upcoming biometric registration exercise and marginalisation of Moslem students in some second cycle institutions.
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