Mrs Lucy Awuni, Upper East Deputy Regional Minister has described the protests by New Patriotic Party (NPP) against the results of the December 7 general election as a mockery.
She said it was a mockery of the Peace Declaration Agreement, which the political party leaders signed in Kumasi just before the elections.
Mrs Awuni said in statement issued in Bolgatanga on Thursday immediately after December 7 NPP allowed its members to mass up in public places to stage protests against the conduct of the elections.
This, she said gave other countries and the foreign media a disturbing impression that there is uneasy calm in the country and that highly regarded institutions like the Electoral Commission (EC) and the security agencies were shoddy.
She expressed dissatisfaction that journalists who were at the line of duty were attacked.
Mrs Awuni said even innocent market women who were perceived to be sympathisers of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) had their share of physical assaults.
She cautioned NDC supporters against reprisal attacks and entreated them to remain calm and to report any threat to the appropriate quarters.
Mrs Awuni commended Ghanaians to put the nation above their various political shades and work hard to maintain the country's enviable democratic stature.
"The December elections shifted the global spotlight on Ghana amid pre-election tension and anxiety; but, thankfully, we, as Africa's torchbearer in democratic governance, did not let the continent down," she said.
She congratulated NDC supporters and sympathisers on the "sweet" victory clinched in both the Presidential and the Parliamentary elections.
She said the victory could only be attributed to fervent prayers of supporters as well as their commitment and vigilance throughout the short campaign season and on the voting day.
"I also thank all citizens of Ghana who may not belong to the NDC but chose to vote for our Presidential Candidate... John Dramani Mahama and our parliamentary candidates throughout the region.
"My congratulatory message extends to all traditional authorities, religious leaders, security agencies, civil society organisations and individuals who contributed their respective quota to ensure an election that world's superpowers, the United Nations, foreign envoys and giant election observers and world-acclaimed election monitoring organisations have described as credible and a benchmark for other countries in Africa and beyond."
The Deputy Minister further appealed to the National Commission for Civic Education, the EC and party leadership at all levels to intensify their voter education exercises ahead of the next election to avoid mishaps.
This year's polls in the region alone saw 19,611 total rejected votes out of 432,048 total votes cast in the presidential election.
In the parliamentary election, a total of 13093 votes were rejected out of the 433,064 total votes cast.