Fellow Ghanaians this Symbolic Peace Pact organised by His Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II is very significant and has direct bearing on the success or failure of this year’s general elections. Ghanaians and the world over hope, that the forum will have the necessary impact on the Ghanaian Voter.

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Media, Article Three of the Declaration is very critical in our quest and desire for peaceful election. It recognizes that free, fair and violence-free elections depend on certain key requirements. These include political parties providing firm leadership in the impartial enforcement of existing laws by state institutions and strengthening of organizational capacities of political parties to promote their members’ compliance with codes of conduct they had endorsed and deepening civic education