NCCE Director calls on Ghanaians to work towards successful election

Mr Pontius Pilate Apaabey, Upper East Regional Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), has called on Ghanaians to commit themselves to working towards peaceful and successful elections.

Mr Apaabey said Ghanaians owned the success of the coming 2012 elections to no other than themselves which called for a reflection and commitment to achieving this feat.

He indicated that the high sense of unity among Ghanaians was manifested in the successes chucked in the five previous peaceful elections in the country since the inception of the 1992 Constitution.

“Ghanaians through our conduct are a peace loving people who utilize diversity for our mutual benefit,” he said.

He, therefore, urged all Ghanaians to make frantic efforts to ensure that the 2012 election was peaceful and successful.

Mr Apaabey was addressing participants at a workshop in Navrongo in the Upper East Region on the theme: “Empowering the Youth to Stand up for Ghana for a Peaceful Election 2012.”

Participants included representatives of political parties and youth associations, assembly members, and chiefs.

Mr Apaabey, who made a presentation on: “Directive Principles of State Policy,” and “Code of Conduct for Political Parties,” said the NCCE was responsible for educating the electorate on their civil responsibilities and the biometric voter registration.

He said the NCCE also facilitated the formation of inter party dialogue committees at the district and regional levels as well as working with multiparty disciplinary groups at the regional level among other things.

Earlier in the week, Mr Apaabey addressed various groups at a focused group discussion in Bolgatanga including people with disabilities, women and the youth.

He indicated that civic education clubs have been formed in forty schools and communities throughout the region.

Source: GNA