{"id":270518,"date":"2016-11-22T10:29:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T10:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=270518"},"modified":"2016-11-22T10:29:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T10:29:06","slug":"dont-vote-on-ethnic-religious-lines-rev-asante-urges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/11\/dont-vote-on-ethnic-religious-lines-rev-asante-urges\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t vote on ethnic, religious lines – Rev. Asante urges"},"content":{"rendered":"
As Ghana inches closer to December 7 elections, the Chairman of the National Peace Council, Most. Reverend Professor Emmanuel Asante has cautioned against voting along tribal and religious lines.<\/p>\n
Both the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) have accused each other of engaging in ethnocentric politics in the heat of their respective campaigns.<\/p>\n
The most recent instance saw the NDC Flagbearer, President John Mahama,\u00a0insist that the NPP would never allow <\/a><\/strong><\/span>its running mate, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia, to graduate to being the party flagbearer because\u00a0it is not in favour of forwarding northerners.<\/p>\n