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Runoff is
handiwork of God – Asamoah-Boateng
Accra, Dec. 23, GNA - Mr Stephen Asamoah-Boateng, Minister
of Information and National Orientation, on Tuesday said if
the December 7 presidential polls had not ended in a runoff
"we will not have been here by now".
He told journalists that the runoff of the presidential
election was the handiwork of God, saying that if the
results had gone either way, it would have had negative
repercussions on the stability of the country.
Mr Asamoah-Boateng quoted the Bible to urge the electorate
to "be still" and know that the hand of God would be at work
in the December 28 poll also.
"Let us not be overly pre-occupied with December 28 polls as
if there is no country to manage after the elections - we
still have a country to run after the elections and we must
not mar the future of the country with just one day of
voting," he said.
The Minister said the incumbent government
was committed to the spirit of democracy and the progress of
the nation, and called on the opposition National Democratic
Congress to also affirm their commitment to same.
He touched on the issue of the closure of the Ghana-Togo
border on voting day and said that "as far as I know the
security agencies are blocking unapproved routes to prevent
people from coming into the country through those routes but
the official borders have not been closed as of now," he
said.
Mr Asamoah-Boateng called on the Electoral Commission to
ensure that the secrecy of the ballot was protected.
The Minister also used the opportunity to express his
sincere apologies to those, who felt offended by some
pronouncements of his in the course of the year.
GNA
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