Ken. Agyapong "Postpone 17th Referendum"

The latest to add his voice to the postponement of the December 17th Referendum is the Assin Central Member of Parliament (MP), Kennedy Agyapong.

Hon Agyapong, who fears the turnout will be low and the government will fail to obtain its need percentage has warned President Akufo-Addo to persuade the Electoral Commission (EC) to postpone the date for the referendum.

Reports suggest that education on the referendum is at all-time low leading to fears that there will be low turnout during the polls that will be held on December 17, 2019.

It is also feared that the government which has been the main advocate for a YES vote will not gain the 75% needed for amendment of the Constitution.

Speaking on the referendum on Net 2 TV,Kennedy Agyapong proposed that the referendum be postponed.

The reason, he said, is to allow people to be well informed about the polls so they can vote YES.

“If they will listen to me, they should postpone the referendum to February so that we can have enough education on it… People don’t tend to take local level elections seriously, so we should insulate the referendum from the local level elections”, he said.

He further proposed that there was a need to decouple the referendum from the local level elections as according to him, Ghanaians don’t take local level elections seriously.

“When we start campaigning and educating people on it very well, we will get more than the 40% turn out", he added.

NDC Chairman Daniel Appiah shot

The Amenfi Central Constituency
Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Western
Region has reportedly been shot.
The unfortunate incident happened
on Monday at Ankwaso, a village in the Amenfi Central District, during a
traditional coronation of a new chief of the area.
The Chairman, Daniel Appiah, who
was said to have been attacked in his black Toyota Hilux vehicle with
registration GW 3832-17, sustained gunshot wounds as a result.
According to a source in the area,
the motive behind the attack is unknown and the perpetrators are yet to be
identified.
The source told DAILY
GUIDE that a scuffle ensued during the traditional ceremony when a
faction the chairman purportedly supports attempted to stop the coronation of
the new chief.
“The chairman’s supporters
allegedly fired gun shots to disrupt the programme but the police quickly
intervened,” the source said, adding that in the process “the NDC chairman
who was in his car was shot at and was rushed to the Sefwi Bekwai Government Hospital
for treatment.”
DAILY GUIDE learnt that one
Kofi Abebrese who was among the chairman’s supporters also sustained injuries
and was admitted to the Bibiani Government Hospital.
No arrests have been made so far but the police have commenced investigations into the incident.