{"id":275881,"date":"2011-02-11T09:29:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T09:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=51879"},"modified":"2011-02-11T09:29:57","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T09:29:57","slug":"if-ndc-attempts-rigging-2012-ghana-will-be-more-like-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/11\/if-ndc-attempts-rigging-2012-ghana-will-be-more-like-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"If NDC Attempts Rigging 2012, Ghana Will Be More Like Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_37619\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37619\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-37619\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2010\/11\/27\/f-mp-dares-arthur-kennedy\/arthur-kennedy2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37619\" title=\"Arthur Kennedy2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Arthur-Kennedy2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arthur Kennedy<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nNPP Member of Parliament for Assin North Constituency in the Central Region, Hon. Kennedy Agyapong, has waded into the controversy generated by the infamous \u201c<strong>all die be die<\/strong>\u201d comment by flagbearer of the party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and warns that should the NDC attempt to rig the 2012 elections, the electoral violence in Kenya will pale into insignificance to what will happen in Ghana, since &#8220;the country will be more like Rwanda.\u201d<br \/>\nThe NDC, he reckons, is \u201cable to get away with murder\u201d because oftentimes, people perceived the NPP to be plagued with the syndrome of \u201coh, let it pass\u201d, but Hon. Ken Agyapong was emphatic that those days are over.<br \/>\nThe NPP MP, who expressed these sentiments in an interview with Shamima Muslim on\u00a0<strong>Citi Eye Witness News<\/strong>, said rather than derail the NPP\u2019s chances, Nana Addo\u2019s remarks is a sit-up call on the party\u2019s supporters and not in any way provocative and will serve as tonic to revitalize the youth of the party.<br \/>\nThe outspoken MP reminded Ghanaians of portions in the national anthem which urges one to \u201cresist the oppressor.\u201d To him, taking into account how NDC footsoldiers chased out their own \u201cD.C.E\u2019s\u201d and seized state property, it is abundantly clear that \u201cthose guys are the oppressors,\u201d and the only language they (NDC) understands is violence.<br \/>\n\u201cThey are killing innocent people, beating innocent people in this country, and nobody says anything and when the man (Nana Addo) says we should defend ourselves, and then they have a problem?\u201d he rhetorically questioned.<br \/>\nRelatedly, he recalled President Mills\u2019 strong admonishing to the Chairman of the Electoral Commission and the NPP which was then the ruling party, to ensure that the 2008 General Elections are conducted in a free and fair atmosphere so that the unfortunate scenes that occurred during the elections in Kenya, are not replicated in Ghana.<br \/>\n\u201c<strong>I want to repeat with all the force at my command, the warning note that I sounded last year (2007) that should there be another attempt by the ruling or any other party at the December elections to steal the verdict of the people the National Democratic Congress and all fair minded Ghanaians will categorically reject out of hand the fraudulent results so proclaimed and will adopt all legitimate means, to seek redress to any such political misconduct. The NDC would therefore like to assure every Ghanaian that it will not allow the NPP in the coming elections to repeat such a disgraceful conduct as it did in 2004&#8230;It (NDC) therefore urges all Ghanaians and the international community to draw useful lessons from the on-going Kenyan conflict situation and the unacceptable conduct of elections held recently in other African countries with a view to ensuring that they are not replicated in our dear country at the next general elections.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>We wish to take this opportunity to warn also against the kind of pre-election violence that has taken place in Pakistan with the unfortunate assassination of Benazir Bhutto and to urge the ruling NPP government to ensure the safety and security of Presidential and Parliamentary candidates as well as all citizens in the coming elections<\/strong>,\u201d then Candidate Mills said at a press conference he held on the aftermath of the recent General and Presidential Elections in Kenya on Wednesday, January 9th 2008.<br \/>\nBut the CEO of Kencity Media warned the ruling NDC that if they attempt to rig the 2012 election, what happened in Kenya will pale in comparison to what will plague the country, vowing that Ghana \u201cwill be more like Rwanda.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI will not sit there for anybody to take my life, hell no!&#8230;Nana Addo has made my day, all he is saying is, defend yourself, and don\u2019t run away\u2026,\u201d Kennedy Agyapong said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPP Member of Parliament for Assin North Constituency in the Central Region, Hon. Kennedy Agyapong, has waded into the controversy generated by the infamous \u201call die be die\u201d comment by flagbearer of the party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and warns that should the NDC attempt to rig the 2012 elections, the electoral violence in Kenya [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>If NDC Attempts Rigging 2012, Ghana Will Be More Like Rwanda - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/11\/if-ndc-attempts-rigging-2012-ghana-will-be-more-like-rwanda\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"If NDC Attempts Rigging 2012, Ghana Will Be More Like Rwanda - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"NPP Member of Parliament for Assin North Constituency in the Central Region, Hon. 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