The National Peace Council has called for a more robust electoral system that can win the confidence of political stakeholders.
He said the many pro-peace activities, slogans and fanfare have been prevalent because doubts still remain about Ghana's electoral process.
He was speaking at a high-powered meeting between the Electoral Commission and six presidential candidates including President John Mahama.
The meeting held at the Movenpick Ambassador Hotel in Accra Thursday is organised by the Commonwealth Observer Mission led by former South African president Thabo Mbeki.
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) chairperson and Liberian president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Former President Jerry John Rawlings and the Chief Justice Georgina Wood also witnessed the ceremony.
Despite holding six successful general elections, political tension still hover around Ghana's seventh attempt at elections on December 7.
Like a Peace Summit was held in 2012 ahead of the general elections, another peace-inspired conference of presidential candidates in the 2016 elections had been held.
The Chairman of the National Peace Council delivering his address signalled, the council is fatigued by the peace pledges. "Let this peace pledges be the last", he stressed.
He was not alone in his concern. The recently-elected President of the National House of Chiefs Togbe Afede XIV told the politicians gathered there, "four years from now we will not have reason to be invited here again".
He said political contest is a declaration of an honest desire to serve and wondered why it must be filled with acrimony and tensions. If disruptive emotions characterise elections, then it shows the actors have a selfish desire to use power for their own advantage.
The 2016 general elections is expected to be a close fought battle between the governing NDC and main opposition NPP.
The stakes are high for both parties. A win for the governing NDC will be a record 12 years in government and a record 12 years in opposition for the NPP.
A win for NPP's Nana Akufo-Addo will end two consecutive defeats and make him Ghana's oldest President at 72 years. A loss for John Mahama will make him a record one-term president.
After the 2012 presidential results ended in court in 2013, the Supreme Court gave a judgment that has sent signals to political parties that elections are won at the polling stations and not in court.
The NPP and the NDC are therefore poised to monitor the ballot with a sense of heightened vigilance which has increased the tension..
Source: myjoyonline
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Asante you are a disgrace to the Methodist Family.You have destroyed the church.Go away with that peace concil u distrub the ears of the Methodist family. You are very proud and arrogant.Self-fish and Self Centered
Ooh yes there wouldn't be Nana Addo anymore in 2020 politics. We have been signing peace pledges the very first day Nana Addo entered the Presidential race
THE STATEMENT WAS ATTRIBUTED TO PEACE COUNCIL. POOR DESCRIPTION OF WHO AND HOW IT WAS MADE. THE PRESENTATION WAS GENERALLY POOR FULL OF SO MANY IRRELEVANT MATERIALS. PLEASE TAKE YOU TIME TO DO A GOOD JOB,myjoyonline
FATHER PLEASE LET ALL THE PLANS OF NDC TO MESS UP THE ELECTION BECOME LIKE THE PLANS OF AHITHOPHEL. DO TO MAHAMA AND THE NDC LIKE YOU DID TO PHAROA AND HIS ARMY IN THE RED SEA. DISCONFIT THEIR THINKING. LET ALL THEIR PLANS BE FOILLED. IF ANY BODY SITS IN HELOCOPTER TO GO MESS THE ELLECTION, LET IT CRASH. IF THAT PERSIN USES CARS LET IT NEVER REACH ITS DESTINATION, IF THE PERSON USES MOTO LET A WIND BLOW IT AWAY. IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST AMEN
This chairman is embarrassing,this man couldn't say anything abt the behavior of president Mahama concerning the attempted bribery of the northern regional chairman of NPP and the ethnocentric comment by mahama? Am highly disappointed in this man
PEACE COUNCIL HAD ALL THE CHANCE IN THIS WORLD TO ADVISE THE EC BUT DID NOT.
Peace Council is disappointingly ***barred word*** because the members are not working according to their concern - they know what is right but they cannot do or say it because of their personal biases.