Former UN Senior Governance Advisor, Professor Baffour Agyeman-Duah, has raised concerns about the conditions set by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) before signing the election peace pact.

He suggested that the NDC’s actions and demands appear to indicate an intention to disrupt the election process.

During a media engagement on Wednesday, August 21, Prof. Agyeman-Duah expressed sympathy for the NDC’s concerns but described their demands as impractical.

“Even though I have to say I do sympathise with the concerns raised by the NDC, I do sympathise with them because truly it’s not been fair that these incidents that happened in the past were not properly addressed especially if the president himself has set up a commission – and even if you rejected some aspects, what about those aspects that were not rejected.

“So I seriously sympathise with the NDC but those conditions that were made, I think it’s very unrealistic. You want the Chief Justice to come and sign, you want the Attorney-General to sign, you want the IGP to sign,” he said.

His remarks were in response to NDC Chairman Johnson Asiedu Nketia’s reaffirmation of the party’s refusal to sign any peace pact before the 2024 General Elections.

During a meeting with the National Peace Council on Tuesday, August 20, 2024, Nketia presented six conditions, one of which called for the signatures of the President, the Inspector-General of Police, the Chief Justice, the National Security Coordinator, and the Attorney General.

Despite this, the National Peace Council urged all political parties to set aside their differences and commit to peace as the elections draw near.

Reacting to this, the former UN Senior Governance Advisor questioned the logic behind involving such high-ranking officials, suggesting that political parties should be able to reach an agreement independently.

“If you think of the future, think of the implications of such a move that henceforth, we’re going to have a Chief Justice, the A-G and all these people come in to sign, I think that is a bit too farfetched so I do not subscribe to the conditions,” Prof Agyeman-Duah added.