Yayakwano (C/R), Dec 21, GNA- Mr Emmanuel Abole, president of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) branch of the University Teachers' Association of Ghana (UTAG), on Thursday urged Ghanaians to maintain peace and unity in the country particularly, during the 2008 Election. He said the utterances of some politicians in recent times indicated that they were recklessly seeking power.

Mr Abole said if they were not checked, their activities would drive the nation to destruction, a situation all well-meaning Ghanaians have prayed against and will not want to entertain.

The lecturer, who made the call in a message titled "dealing with our differences for a united nation", to climax the association's end of year get-together, at Yayakwano, near Cape Coast, stressed that politics must act in the supreme interest of the nation.

Mr Abole said events of the post-independence era, largely fuelled by ignorance about what it takes to build a nation, and the inability to achieve consensus as to how to work efficiently, coupled with leadership and inter-generational power struggle, have "widened the lines of fissure even more."

He said this had resulted in the inability of the people to achieve and maintain consensus on national interests adding it would "therefore be prudent for all to appreciate our past in order to build for ourselves a nation we all desire."

Mr Abole urged Ghanaians to settle their differences and build a united nation.

He said even though Ghana had attained 50 years of nationhood, the country was still in the process of being formed into one body of people with a common descent, language, culture or historical tradition adding that nation building involved putting disparate communities together to make up one entity.

Mr Abole said, "the slogan one people one destiny is still a dream that Ghana is striving to achieve, and it is in the face of such reality that the need to strive for a better integration becomes imperative." He stressed that the electorate should guard against reckless politicians and called on Churches and other religious groups to preach peace.