The Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) has condemned the incidents and acts of hooliganism, vandalism, storming, raiding and occupation of public facilities and offices, ejection and threatened ejection of public officials from their offices or official residences, and similar disorderly conduct reported across the country in the aftermath of the December 7, 2024 general election. "CDD-Ghana is aware that a similar pattern of post-election disorder and violence perpetrated by partisans of the victorious party has characterised previous turnover elections in the country during this Fourth Republic.
This regrettable fact, however, cannot excuse or justify the latest spate of post-election violence.
Rather, the Centre is concerned that this pattern of post-election partisan hooliganism, left unchecked and unpunished from one turnover election to the next, would become an ugly feature of our political culture, undermining efforts to mitigate our winner-take-all politics and threatening the peace and stability of our Republic," a statement issued by the CDD in Accra yesterday has stated.
It was in this regard, that the Centre called on the law enforcement authorities to apply the laws of Ghana firmly to arrest this growing tendency.
