Tamale (Northern Region) - Security personnel had a hectic time controlling the crowd in Tamale when Vice-President Alhaji Aliu Mahama paid a brief private visit to the Municipality on Sunday.

Thousands of people made up of the youth and the elderly thronged the principal streets to give the Vice-President a rousing welcome. The people in cars, buses and motorcycles followed his convoy to the office of the Regional Co-ordinating.

The crowd mostly NPP supporters, shouted a slogan in Dagbani, which translates: "some people said he cannot come to Tamale again," in an apparent reference to the Dagbon crisis.

Vice-President Mahama who was in Tamale after a working visit to the Upper East Region in a brief address to the crowd at his mother's residence, appealed to the people of Dagbon to let peace prevail, adding that, "without peace, there can be no development". He assured NPP supporters that the party would win the Navrongo by-election on Tuesday.