The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has reiterated that though it is committed to ensuring peace in the upcoming December 7 general election, it will not be a signatory to the Peace Council's peace pact.
The peace pact is a proposed agreement meant to bind competing political parties in the December polls to ensure peaceful conduct during and after the elections.
NDC, however, claims that the Peace Council has failed to foster a balanced, inclusive atmosphere ahead of the elections and will therefore not sign the pact.
Deputy General Secretary of the NDC, Mustapha Gbande, stressed in a media interview that the Peace Council has not been a partial referee, which is why the NDC is abstaining. "Institutions of states such as the police, the Electoral Commission, the military, national security, all of these individual institutions play a role, a frontal role, to ensure that they actually are referees to everything that is being done for peace to prevail.