The
Chairman for the National Peace Council, Most Rev. Prof. Emmanuel
Asante has admonished presidential candidates including President John
Dramani Mahama and their supporters to be mindful of their utterances.
He
urged candidates to desist from personal attacks and the use of abusive
language and rather speak on issues when the mount political platforms.
Most
Rev. Emmanuel Asante said some of these utterances may spell doom, and
possibly lead to counter attacks, a situation he posited, would
polarised the political atmosphere.
According to him, the message is what would inform a voter's choice, and not the insults, attacks and vilification.
"Let's
speak on issues. We should be circumspect in our utterances. Sell your
message and let the voters' decide...But if we mount a platform and
start attacking our opponents personally, it creates undue tension,
retaliation and instability. So I'm humbly appealing to all the
presidential candidates including President Mahama to be circumspect,
desist from abusive language and personality attacks".
The
opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has threatened to respond to
President Mahama's attacks on Nana Addo if he doesn't desist from that.
The Eastern regional branch of the party yesterday called on the Peace
Council and the Council of State to call President Mahama to order, else
they would respond him on his own terms.
President John Dramani
Mahama has over the past three days taken a swipe at his closest rival
Nana Addo, his latest comment against the flagbearer of the elephant
family is that, voters' should not vote for him because he is a
dictator.
The Most Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Asante underscored the need for all these comments to stop to ensure sanity and decency. |
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