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I’ll be voting with Kalyppo in hand - Franklin Cudjoe calls bluff of NCCE
The National Commission for Civic Education has appealed to Ghanaians not to take Kalyppo fruit juice, which has become synonymous with the NPP, to the polling station.
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The fruit juice became associated with the NPP after the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) sought to mock the NPP's flagbearer, Nana Akufo-Addo, by posting a picture of him sipping the fruit juice on Facebook.
The NPP, however, capitalised on it in solidarity with their party leader.
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Mr Alhassan Yakubu, the Ashanti Regional Director of NCCE had since warned that taking the Kalyppo drink to polling stations could spark violence.
He told Pulse.com.gh that "The CI 94 which is regulating the presidential and parliamentary election says that nobody on Election Day should do anything that will identify him or her with any political party such as wearing party paraphernalia, T-shirt, cup or doing anything that will portray your political colour.
"I am coming from that background that for this year 2016, You and I know that Kalyppo, it is Nana Addo who has been using Kalyppo to propagate his party.
"And the law says that do not do anything that will identify you on the polling day. So why carry Kalyppo that will identify you?
But Mr Cudjoe, responding in a Facebook post on Monday November 28 said: “I am mortified by the reasoning of the NCCE that voters drinking the famed fruity 'Kalyppo’ will be unduly influencing the vote or possibly courting trouble.“Since when did a drink for quenching thirst and quite delectable to the human palate become a terror tool? I would think that the NCCE should do what it knows best – civic education – and leave such absurd reductio to the company of clowns. I'll be voting with my Kalyppo in hand.”
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