‘Ayekoo’ Ghana for peaceful election

Dear Editor,

I wish to use this platform to say a big ‘ayekoo’ to my fellow Ghanaians for the relative peaceful manner we conducted our presidential and parliamentary polls.

But for some pockets of chaos recorded at a few polling stations and controversies at polling stations over collation results, it would have been a huge success.

But generally, it is important to commend the people. This only goes to strengthen our democracy and the key institutions playing very vital roles.

What has left a sour taste in the mouth are scenes recorded by over jubilant fanatics resulting in injuries and some deaths.

Those engaging in looting and invasion of public institutions are also not helping the peace of the nation. The trolling on social media would be difficult to control but it’s important for people not to cross certain boundaries with their posts.

It is also unfortunate that voter apathy was very high in certain regions. Various reasons have been ascribed for that but I hope that citizens would know that their participation in such exercises would go a long way to strengthen our democracy.

I wish that in future, many more Ghanaians would vote on issues and policies and not the current strong affiliation with groups.

May I also commended Nana Kwame Bediako (Cheddar) for the impact he made on the polls on his first attempt. I believe with time Ghanaians would begin to buy into his ideas to represent the third force Ghanaians crave for.