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Mr. Ekow Sarbah addressing some youths of YPM |
A pressure group affiliated to the Cape Coast branch of the
opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has sent a strong warning to the
leadership of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the
Central Region, asking it to advise its supporters to refrain from
tearing and removing NPP posters.
The group, which called itself
the 'Young Patriotic Movement' (YPM), also threatened to stage a massive
demonstration against the diabolic tactics of the NDC should their
leadership fail to call the supporters to order.
Addressing a
press conference organised yesterday at the Oguaa NPP campaign office,
the vice chairman and spokesperson for the group, Emmanuel Ebo Sarbah
disclosed that YPM was worried about the tactics the NDC had employed to
cause mayhem in the Cape Coast North and South constituencies.
According
to him, some NDC supporters had begun destroying posters of NPP, the
party's flags in town, attacking die-hard NPP sympathisers during
keep-fit exercises as well as attacking their members who paste the
posters.
'What the NDC supporters are doing is a recipe for chaos
and it needs to stop now else it will lead to a serious battle between
the two parties,' he stated.
He revealed that a loyal member of
YPM, Justina Monko, was seriously beaten by an NDC sympathiser at Ntsin,
a suburb of Cape Coast, while on a keep-fit exercise last week Sunday.
He
noted that this plus other four cases of assault had since been
reported to the Central Regional Police Command for the necessary action
to be taken.
Mr Sarbah stated that since the NPP, together with
its leadership, believed in democracy and rule of law, they would not
take the law into their own hands, but seek appropriate measures to
salvage the situation.
'Our flagbearer, Nana Akufo Addo has made
it clear that he would not want to govern a divided country. We will not
do anything to contradict that but help him achieve his vision for
Ghana's progress,' he said.
Mr. Sarbah however urged the Central
regional executives of the NDC to run a clean, issue-based campaign
devoid of insults as the NPP was doing.
He was optimistic that
once the NPP had credible presidential and parliamentary candidates in
the region, they would not engage themselves in any election violence
but rather go down to grassroots members to sell the party's policies
and ideologies and canvass for more votes for victory in the December
elections.
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