{"id":239584,"date":"2016-08-16T06:05:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T06:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=239584"},"modified":"2016-08-16T06:05:07","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T06:05:07","slug":"afokos-intent-to-appeal-ruling-worrying-npp-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=239584","title":{"rendered":"Afoko’s intent to appeal ruling ‘worrying’ – NPP lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lawyer for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Godfred Dame, has described as worrying, attempts by the former National Chairman of the NPP , Paul Afoko, to challenge the Human Right Court\u2019s dismissal of his suit against the party.<\/p>\n

A Human Rights Court in Accra on Monday dismissed a suit<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>filed by Paul Afoko challenging his suspension.<\/p>\n

But lawyers of the suspended Chairman have indicated they might appeal the judgement.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”t10sNBmIJtHwSLBV3ezm6zVfZTS2Uqlh”]A statement signed by Paul Afoko\u2019s Spokesperson, Nana Yaw Osei, said \u201clawyers for Mr. Afoko will carefully study the judgment and launch an appeal against the decision at the appropriate time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking on Eyewitness News,<\/strong>Mr. Dame said although he does not have any qualms about Afoko\u2019s decision to appeal , he believes it is unnecessary,<\/p>\n

\u201cI do not have any qualms or whatsoever about the fight not being over. As far as I am concerned, the suspension of Mr. Afoko has been declared lawful by the High Court. Now a greater burden is on him to convince the court of appeal about the irregularities of the decision taken today. This indication by Mr. Afoko is very worrying. It is very worrying\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

He wondered why Mr, Afoko will \u201cact contrary to the spirit of unity peace and reconciliation shown by the party by going a further up to the appeal process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ruling on Afoko not an opportunity to jubilate \u2013 NPP<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile the NPP has welcomed the ruling<\/strong><\/span><\/a> of the Court that upheld its suspension of the party\u2019s National Chairman, Paul Afoko, as lawful, saying it gingers them to pursue their \u2018change\u2019 agenda.<\/p>\n

The party however says the ruling is neither a defeat nor a win for both parties, and urged members not to necessarily jubilate, but to revitalize themselves and work hard to return the party to power in the December polls.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Marian Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lawyer for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Godfred Dame, has described as worrying, attempts by the former National Chairman of the NPP , Paul Afoko, to challenge the Human Right Court\u2019s dismissal of his suit against the party. A Human Rights Court in Accra on Monday dismissed a suit filed by Paul Afoko challenging his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":214932,"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":[58,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-slider-1","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239584","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=239584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/214932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}