Assuring hope to young floating voters will win you power, not vitriols – NPC to politicians

The National Peace Council (NPC) has advised political parties to craft messages that appeal to the aspirations of the youth who form a majority of the floating voters.

Speaking to host Julius Caesar Anadem on the Ultimate Breakfast Show, the Ashanti Regional Executive Secretary of the NPC, Rev. Emmanuel Badu Amoah argued that this critical mass usually formed the base that determines who wins elections in Ghana.

“Those who determine Ghana’s elections are the floating voters and those who want peace in Ghana. So if I were them, I would change my strategy because it is about the majority,”

He pointed out that despite the economic and social challenges confronting the country, a majority of the youth were yearning for messages that assured them of a promising future for themselves and their children.

“They have issues of economic challenges but they can also think of the future of their children’s children and of the country of their inheritance and they will take a decision that will favour them,” he stated.

Rev. Amoah challenged the youth endorsing the vitriolic and warmongering statements of politicians, to be minded that losing their lives through elections was not worth it.

“Peace is not a commodity we can trade with like what is happening. It is paramount that everybody must work to pursue it”

“If you join a political party, it doesn’t make you irrational. The president who is over 80 years now, joined the ‘Kumepreko’ demonstrations when he was young. If he were killed, he wouldn’t have become a president today,” he advised.

He drew the attention of the youth to the Vigilantism and Other Offenses Bill which criminalizes the formation or membership of vigilante groups with consequences that bar such convicts from ever holding any position of public office.