Political parties have been urged by the National Peace Council (NPC) to refrain from using derogatory language and hate speech during the 2024 election campaign.
That would guarantee that the nation stayed peaceful following this year’s elections, it said, allowing the populace to go about their lives without interference.
The NPC Board Chairman, Rev. Dr. Ernest Adu-Gyamfi, stated, “We advise the political parties to use moderate language in everything they say to ensure that the nation will still be peaceful at the end of the elections.”
The request was made by Rev. Dr. Adu-Gyamfi during yesterday’s Political Party Trust Building Program first quarter meeting with political parties in Accra.
Representatives from the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP), the Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG), the National Democratic Party (NDP), and the Ghana Union Movement (GUM) gathered at the meeting with the goal of forging a national consensus for peaceful elections in 2024.
The International Republican Institute (IRI), a global non-governmental organization, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) provided sponsorship for the event, which was organized by the NPC.
The recommendations of the December 2023 Peduase Stock-Taking Conference were also adopted by the meeting.
One of the most important recommendations was that the Judiciary move quickly to address the problem of the time limit for settling disputes related to parliamentary elections.
“With your help and support, the council will keep pushing the judiciary to create a system that will assist in handling petitions for parliamentary elections in a timely manner. Ideally, all petitions for parliamentary elections will be handled in the 42-day window that has been set up for petitions for presidential elections,” he promised.
That would facilitate the development of a “inclusive and just process” for amicable resolutions, he claimed.
