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President John Dramani Mahama has instructed constituency and regional chairpersons of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) to restrain party supporters from attacks. This directive follows reports of alleged NDC supporters attacking state institutions, including the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority and the Volta Aluminium Company (VALCO), on Wednesday, 8th January.
Speaking at the Presidential Dinner held at the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC) on the same day, President Mahama passionately urged supporters to avoid replicating the actions of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) following their 2017 electoral victory.
He emphasised the importance of maintaining order and demonstrating a difference in governance, saying:
I know that in 2017 that is what the NPP did after we lost that election. As soon as we handed over, they started to attack government offices, take over tolling booths, public toilets, attack government offices and throw people out, stop people on the street and take cars from them.
We must not do the same thing. Let us show Ghana that we're different. I know that a lot of our youth sacrificed and went to great lengths to make the party win. What we must be doing is compiling a list of such people and what possibilities there are so that we can engage their little energies when things have settled. Rather than take the law in our own hands and open fertilizer deposit, warehouses and take rice and things.
Let us show NPP that we're different and let us win the confidence that Ghanaians reposed in us. And so I expect that regional chairman and constituency chairman will call our young people to order so that we can do this thing in an organised fashion.
President Mahama further cautioned that he would have no choice but to instruct security agencies to intervene if the attacks persist.
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