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The Accra Metropolitan Archbishop of the Catholic Church in Ghana, Most Reverent Gabriel Charles Palmer-Buckle, has said Ghana is on the verge of �committing national suicide� with its polarised political landscape. Archbishop Palmer-Buckle who chaired a Lecture delivered by Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II on Friday May 17, 2013 was reiterating a concern echoed by the Asante Monarch concerning the highly divided political atmosphere in Ghana. Otumfuo Osei Tutu had bewailed that: �We have allowed politics to so dominate our lives and influence our thoughts that nothing else seems to matter than the good of the party we support�. �We have also picked up some demons that now threaten to destroy the very basis of our national cohesion�, Otumfuo Osei Tutu deplored. Reiterating the need for unity and oneness as a nation, Archbishop Palmer-Buckle said: �We have to admit that if this country is where it is; the problem is ours�. He said: ��I think we are pulling this country apart�. He emphasised that: �We have a variety of tribes, a variety of nations, a variety of peoples but we are so well-woven together that I think it is high time we don�t allow anybody else to tear us apart�. The Lecture was on the topic: �Advancing Together�. It was organised by the National Council for Civic Education (NCCE) as part of its annual Democracy Lectures in Accra.