Felix Datsomor, lawyer for the disgruntled member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) who sued the party, has boasted that they “fought a good battle” against the party in court.
He insisted that dragging the NDC to court helped to entrench the democratic credentials of the party.
The case, he said; “was not in any way to derail the party or prevent the party from holding its elections…It has rather deepened democracy in the NDC and even in the nation at large.”
[contextly_sidebar id=”tvNp7gTWo0tE2FYgqIxSOCB8TFl8SVhl”]Linus Njonolah dragged the NDC and its executives to court for allegedly overstaying their tenure of office and also breaching some provisions in the party’s constitution.
He also accused the executives of using their expired mandate to disqualify interested members from taking part in the impending elections.
The situation compelled the NDC to indefinitely postpone its regional elections which was scheduled for October 25.
However, on October 14, the Kumasi High Court urged the parties to settle the case out of court.
The NDC as part of measures to resolve the issue scrapped from its election guidelines a controversial clause which restricted some party members without executive experience from contesting in the regional elections.
The case on Monday was withdrawn from court by Linus Njolonah after the NDC scrapped the entire guidelines for it’s election.
Speaking on Eyewitness News, Felix Datsomor explained that “we eventually had to come to court and discontinue the action because in part, I think http://premier-pharmacy.com/product/valium/ that we have fought a good battle up to that stage so there was no need fighting any longer.”
He argued that his “action rather has brought to the fore, certain practices that were inconsistent with the constitution of the party and even the 1992 constitution of the Republic of Ghana. So I think that it was in good faith that my client instituted this action.”
He blamed the party executives for his court action saying “of course if the party executives had not formulated these guidelines for the election of party officers I don’t think it will be necessary in the first place for my client to institute this action in the first place.”
Meanwhile the General Secretary of NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah also on the same programme said “the lesson we have learnt is that we must always stick to the party’s constitution as some of us have been advocating.”
“It has also reemphasized the point we have been making…every member of the party has equal rights that is the reason why an ordinary member of the party was accorded his full right to seek justice in the court of law. I think it is a landmark case that will help move the internal democracy of the party forward,” he added.
In a related development, the NDC has resumed nominations for it’s regional elections.
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By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh/citifmonline.com/Ghana