A member of the governing NDC’s legal team Abraham Amaliba is accusing Martin Amidu of mischievously dragging the name of President Mahama and the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) into the Woyome scandal.
“In all these the President’s name has never been mentioned, so why is Martin Amidu trying so hard to drag the president in this matter,” he queried.
[contextly_sidebar id=”9WU8MJancgcLZKkYLV1mpjWi3zXK0fGg”]The former Attorney General (AG) in his recent statement on the matter stated that “the relationship between Lithur, Brew and Co as private lawyers to the president of the republic of Ghana, the appointment of Mrs. Marietta Brew Appiah Oppong as the Attorney General by the same President to oversee amongst other things sensitive cases involving his Government requiring impartiality such as the constitutional and criminal cases affecting Woyome and his associates in which the NDC clearly has a vested Political interest as a Government, are issues only a population of rabble citizens will overlook.”
But Mr. Amaliba refuses to accept this. For him, “the President’s lawyer is Tony lithur and not the Attorney General.”
He further sought to exonerate the Attorney General of any existing relationship with her former firm by insisting that she announced her resignation from the lithur, Brew and Co chamber “indeed you remember when the attorney was appointed she quickly resigned from the firm and recused herself from the legal team of the president, so what his saying,” the clearly livid Amaliba posited.
Mr. Amaliba also insists the former AG is being disingenuous with his statements and imputations in his attempt to link the President to the scandal saying “I think there is mischief here, I am of the view that Martin Amidu is simply trying to drag the President into this, when the Ghanaian people know from the inception of this matter that then as the vice president had no hand in this matter, let alone now that he is the President.”
The NDC legal brain also warned the former AG against seeking to drag the ruling party into the matter. “I’m surprised Martin Amidu is talking about NDC, the state is prosecuting not NDC,”… “He should refrain from dragging the party he claims to be member of into the issues,” he fumed.
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By: Raymond Acquah/citifmonline.com/Ghana