Nduom meets Muslim community in Accra

The flag bearer of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom has met with the leadership of the Muslim Community and ask for their prayers and support in his bid to become the president of the country.
Dr Nduom said his party which was at the forefront during the fight for the independence of the country and would not do anything that would bring disunity and chaos to the country.
He said the CPP would concentrate on what better alternative it had for Ghanaians but would not resort to the use of abusive and inflammatory languages.
He promised to treat the youth of the Zongos with respect and would not use them to create trouble like some political parties were doing.
Earlier in an interview after the meeting he indicated mentioned that Electoral Commission (EC) had proved over the years beyond all reasonable doubt that, even with difficulty, it could be independent, free and fair, and therefore needed the support of all stakeholders to enable it perform its constitutional duties creditably.
Dr Nduom was speaking to the Daily Graphic in an interview before he met the Chief Imam and his elders at the Abbosey Okai Central Mosque in Accra on Friday.
He was reacting to the recent claims by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) t on the bloated voters register in the Ashanti Region.
Dr Nduom advised political parties to consult the EC with their problems or take such problems to the Inter Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) which comprises all political parties but not to rush to the public under the guise of preventing what happened in Kenya to take place in Ghana.
According to him, that electoral dispute that took place in Kenya was about an electoral commission that could not perform its function creditably, but the current EC in Ghana had proven its independence and credibility through several elections.
On the alleged bloated register, he said he had listened to the EC officials in Accra and the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the EC who provided the national headquarters with the figures and “I believe that they have given me a perfectly OK explanation on the situation. I do not believe the voters register is bloated as some people are claiming”.
Dr Nduom who is the current CPP Member of Parliament (MP) for Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirim said the experience he had had during elections as an assembly member and two times as aspiring MP had thought him to be tactful with competing political parties.
He recounted what he described as a bitter experience when he won the 2000 election by the aggregation of all the ballots at the polling station, but when all the results we recounted at the collation centre, he mysteriously lost the election.
“As for the EC I don’t have any problem with them, but with other political parties, some of whom want to do things that I have seen them do before, example what they did in 2000”, he said.
Dr Nduom said it was based on this experience that the CPP was training over 250,000 polling agents for the 2008 elections to ensure that apart from the security that the EC would provided, the party could also assist to ensure a free and fair election.
Later at a meeting with the muslim leaders at the mosque.