NDC leadership asked to help stop intimidations

Tamale, Jan. 14, GNA - Mr. Clifford Abdallah Braimah, Northern Regional Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has asked the leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to help stop the alleged intimidations being perpetrated on perceived political opponents.

"There is the need for the NDC and its leadership to accept that they are now in government and stop attacks on perceived political opponents for national unity", Mr. Clifford Abdallah Braimah, Northern Regional Secretary of the party said.

Mr. Braimah told the GNA at Tamale, on Tuesday, that the leadership of the NPP and its supporters all over the country had accepted President Evans Atta Mills as a president for all and were prepared to collaborate with his government to work and ensure peace and development.

He said though the elections were over, some members of the NPP were allegedly attacked in the region to an extent that some houses and property had been destroyed.

He claimed that the attacks were as a result of campaigns of hatred particularly in the Northern Region and appealed to the leadership of the NDC to immediately denounce such attacks publicly to ensure that peace prevailed.

Mr. Braimah said it was impossible for a political party to get 100 per cent of votes in elections and that the beauty of democracy was the room for intense competition to ensure accountability. He alleged that some persons attacked the NPP Northern regional assistant secretary Mr. Faisal Gbamgili and destroyed some houses in the Metropolis saying, "The destruction is further retarding development of the north."

Mr. Braimah said though the acts of violence on party members had been reported to the Northern Regional Police Command there was the need for the NDC to call its members to order to forestall sanity in the country. "With the humility of President Mills and Vice President John Mahama, there is no way the two gentlemen of the land would be happy or condone wrong doing. We know it is only some few members within the NDC who want revenge but such acts would not appease anybody," he stressed. 14 Jan. 09