“There’s no room and there should be no room for violence in this whole process. It should be a contest of ideas that seek to win the hearts and minds of the people” he said during his speech at the 62nd Independence Day anniversary in Tamale.
The President noted that “success should be counted by how many young people go to school and get skills and jobs, not by how many young people can be marshalled to disrupt elections or how many broken bones we can count“.
The people of Ghana, he said “do not deserve to be toyed with in such a reckless manner” as the very concept of political violence is “offensive” and shames us all who are in politics.”
Expressing hope that the impending dialogue between the two major political parties—the New Patriotic Party and the National Democratic Congress succeeds, he said: “I’ll spare no effort including the initiation of the relevant legislation to ensure that we rid our nation of politically related violence.”
President Akufo-Addo’s comments come barely a day after he denied claims from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) that he is recruiting “party thugs for the 2020 general elections.”
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