The Founder and leader of the Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG), Percival Kofi Akpaloo has expressed grave concern over the increasing rate at which the country is being polarised between the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

He said the development had the propensity to destroy the fabric of the society and open it to attendant repercussions.

He called on Ghanaians to brainstorm and evolve strategies to ensure that the canker was halted and also make the perpetrators of such polarisation to realise that they were Ghanaians first before any affiliation to any political party.

He said it was very disturbing that people did not care about the quality of persons appointed to or nominated for certain positions but all they wanted was that such persons must of necessity be members of their party, irrespective of their capacity to deliver.

He described the situation as very dangerous, noting that it demanded the urgent attention of all well- meaning Ghanaians because if it was allowed to continue it would not augur well for the future of the country.

He said another disturbing aspect of the development was that even when a President had made appointments based on merit, with the view that those appointed would best solve the problems at hand, people claiming to be party activists stood up against those appointments because they claimed that the appointed or nominated persons were not fully-fledged party members, “Percival Kofi Akpaloo.

Source…www.sompaonline.com/Richard Obeng Bediako