Ntiribuoho (Ash), Dec. 5, GNA - Mr. Emmanuel Asamoah Owusu-Ansah, Ashanti Regional Minister, has called on all Ghanaians to pray for a peaceful election.

He has also appealed to faith organizations, chiefs and eElders and individuals to pray for longer and healthy life for President John Agyekum Kufuor, pray for Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the NPP flag bearer to win the election and be able to continue from President Kufuor is leaving off.

Mr. Owusu-Ansah, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kwabre West, said this at a durbar organized by the chiefs and people of Ntiribuoho in the Afigya-Kwabre District to welcome him to the community as part of his tour of the constituency on Thursday He also stressed the need for all of them to pray for Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, for God to grant him long life and wisdom and also to pray for the safety of political leaders and their supporters as they camapign.

The Regional Minister who visited other communities including new Kyekyire, Kyirase, Afrancho, Bronkong, Tigyira, Krobo and Hemang-Buoho, urged the people to cast their votes wisely for candidates who have the welfare and the development of the country at heart. He said the country was on the threshold of development and there was the need for them to uphold the peace and the freedom every Ghana was enjoying and support the NPP by voting for continued good governance.

Mr. Owusu-Ansah urged the people to eschew violence during and after the election so that they would continue to stay together as one people with love, understanding and a common destiny. He told them that he had not completed some of the development projects initiated by him in the areas of road construction, education, electrification and health and appealed to them to give him the mandate for the next four years to complete them. The chiefs commended him for the unique role he had played in the development of the region and the constituency in particular and appealed to him for more roads, schools and potable water.