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Don't take Kalyppo fruit juice to polling stations -NCCE appeals

In an interview with Pulse.com.gh, Mr Yakubu said although the fruit juice producing company has not endorsed the NPP, Kalyppo has largely been associated with the party.

Mr Alhassan Yakubu, the Ashanti Regional Director of NCCE, said it could spark violence at the polling stations.

He said: "The CI 94 which is regulating the presidential and parliamentary election says that nobody on Election Day should do anything that will identify him or her with any political party such as wearing party paraphernalia, T-shirt, cup or doing anything that will portray your political colour.

"I am coming from that background that for this year 2016, You and I know that Kalyppo, it is Nana Addo who has been using Kalyppo to propagate his party.

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"And the law says that do not do anything that will identify you on the polling day. So why carry Kalyppo that will identify you?

The fruit juice became associated with the NPP after the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) sought to mock the NPP's flagbearer, Nana Akufo-Addo, by posting a picture of him sipping the fruit juice on Facebook.

The NPP, however, capitalised on it in solidarity with their party leader.

The Kalyppo crazy took social media by storm to the surprise of NDC members who monitored it in horror.

Supporters pictured themselves drinking the fruit juice, cooking it, pretending to bath with it, doing a surgical operation and making bold tie. One man also pinned Kalyppo to a selfie-stick.

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At the entrance of the home of Nana Akufo-Addo, supporters have erected a giant Kalyppo billboard.

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