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Editorial News of Tuesday, 19 December 2000

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NDC is hot as it entices Togolese to vote in run-off?

The Crusading Guide writes that reports reaching the NPP leadership strongly indicate that the NDC has embarked upon dangerous moves to win the December 28 Presidential run-up at all cost. It said among some of the most dangerous and inimical decisions taken at a recent NDC meeting is a design to lure Togolese to vote in Ghana for 10,000 CFA and free transport.

Tribal sentiments, according to the paper, are to be whipped up where Ewes and Northerners will be pitted against Asantes, using the lie that the latter hated the former and in the event of a Kufuor victory, they (Northerners) will be sacked from Southern Ghana.

The Crusading Guide quotes Mr Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, National Campaign Manager of the NPP as saying in a statement that "people from the target tribes are to be put on television to narrate false stories of persecution and harassment by Asantes, simply because of where they hail from and their support for the NDC."

Armed soldiers are also to be roped into the diabolic destabilizing plan where they will be deployed in NPP strongholds to scare voters from voting.