The Executive Director of the Institute for Democratic Governance, Dr. Emmanuel Akwetey, has praised the (NDC) and its National Chairman, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, for the demands the party is making before it signs the peace accord for the pending 2024 polls. He said that the position taken by the NDC shows leadership and is important because most of the issues they have raised are concerns Civil Society Organisations have been complaining about for years. Dr. Akwetey, who made these remarks in an interview on JoyNews' "PM Express" on August 21, 2024, indicated that the demands of the NDC would help address these concerns, which include election violence, the activities of vigilante groups, and the disregard for the power of the police during elections. "When these two parties (the NDC and the New Patriotic Party) are in government, would they give the police or empower the police or give them the space to do their work?