Chief Ahmed Ibrahim, President of the Council of Zongo Chiefs, has called on the Muslim Community and other religious groups to pray for God's intervention to ensure peaceful elections on December 7, 2008.
A statement issued jointly by Chief Ahmed Ibrahim and the Asokwa Youth for Educational and Development (AYED), a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) and signed by Mr Mohammed Awal, Executive Director of AYED on Thursday in Kumasi, said Chief Ibrahim also called for greater effort to be made by all and sundry to ensure peace.
It outlined a series of programmes and actions that have already been carried out by the chief in collaboration with AYED to avoid political violence and subsequently achieve peaceful elections
The programme included educational talk shops on radio stations, night preaching, educating the electorates during Muslim Friday prayers and on Sunday Church Services, peace walks by the various keep fit clubs and the distribution of leaflets on violence free elections.
The statement referred to a rally held in the Asawase Constituency, during which Mr Muntaka Mubarak, the Member of Parliament for the area and some leaders appealed to the electorates desist from any act that would disturb the peace of the country.
"We have no doubt that the people of Ghana once again would come out from this election successfully to really become pace setters in Africa", the statement noted.