{"id":232774,"date":"2016-07-20T16:48:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T16:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=232774"},"modified":"2016-07-20T16:48:22","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T16:48:22","slug":"court-fines-failed-ndc-parliamentary-aspirant-ghc-20000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=232774","title":{"rendered":"Court fines failed NDC parliamentary aspirant Ghc 20,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>A Tamale High Court has fined a failed National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary hopeful, Namburi Derrick GHc 20, 000 in connection with a lawsuit brought against the party.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a ruling by Justice Charles Gyamfi, who presided over a year-long legal battle between the NDC and the litigant.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Namburi Derrick dragged the NDC to court over the party\u2019s National Executive Committee\u2019s decision to reject his nomination at the vetting of Parliamentary hopefuls in the Bunkprugu constituency.<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He insinuated in his plea that, he was disqualified on suspicion that he is a member of the NDC breakaway National Democratic Party (NDP).<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The court formally granted him an interlocutory injunction.\u00a0As a former Member of Parliament for the area, his action halted the Parliamentary primary there.<\/p>\n<p>The NDC\u2019s Northern Regional Director of Elections, Tanko Rashid, alias computer commended the Presiding Judge for upholding the party\u2019s application.<\/p>\n<p>He thereby cautioned party members against such unruly behavior. \u00a0He told Citi News the party requested for GHc100.000 fine, but the Judge\u2019s leniency necessitated the GHc20.000 fine slapped on the litigant.<\/p>\n<p>He served notice that the NDC Northern Regional leadership will not countenance indiscipline within its fold.<\/p>\n<p>Until the court\u2019s verdict, the Bunkpurugu constituency remained the only one in the Northern Region without a Parliamentary candidate on the ticket of the NDC.<\/p>\n<p>A date is yet to be fixed for the Parliamentary primary with barely four\u00a0months into the 2016 polls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tamale High Court has fined a failed National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary hopeful, Namburi Derrick GHc 20, 000 in connection with a lawsuit brought against the party. This was contained in a ruling by Justice Charles Gyamfi, who presided over a year-long legal battle between the NDC and the litigant. Mr. Namburi Derrick dragged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":225177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/225177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}