{"id":56269,"date":"2014-10-14T13:11:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T13:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=56269"},"modified":"2014-10-14T15:42:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T15:42:14","slug":"ndc-election-case-judge-orders-for-out-of-court-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=56269","title":{"rendered":"NDC election case: Judge orders for out of court settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Kumasi High Court has ordered for an out of court settlement in a case brought before it by an aggrieved member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Linus Njonolah restraining the party from holding its constituency and national elections in the Ashanti Region.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/09\/23\/ar-ndc-elections-in-limbo-court-to-decide-on-sep-26\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\">Njonolah Linus dragged the NDC and its executives to court<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> for allegedly overstaying their tenure of office and also breaching some provisions in the party\u2019s constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The Court had earlier ordered the national executives of the party to hold on with the national elections and that of the Ashanti Region for a 10-day period.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;KSgEaNJXu1VGujRwyqej4PQcIU602ppV&#8221;]The NDC has subsequently postponed its National Delegates Congress scheduled for October 25, because of the case.<\/p>\n<p>Linus Njonolah who spoke to\u00a0<b>Citi News<\/b>\u00a0shortly after the hearing said,\u00a0His Lordship Jacob Bunoo told them that his ruling has the tendency of tearing the NDC apart, hence, the need for an out of court settlement.<\/p>\n<p>The judge charged the two parties to settle the issue before returning to court on October 27<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>The Judge also cautioned the NDC against underestimating the capacity of the petitioner in the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we look at the case, I have a lot of people who are interested in the case and I have a strong case that I believe in,\u201d\u00a0Njonolah said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe judge said that there are people who are also interested in the case, that\u2019s why the court has been full to capacity whenever am coming a lot of people have been coming to the court room,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlloteyGodwin\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AlloteyGodwin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Kumasi High Court has ordered for an out of court settlement in a case brought before it by an aggrieved member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Linus Njonolah restraining the party from holding its constituency and national elections in the Ashanti Region. Njonolah Linus dragged the NDC and its executives to court for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":51936,"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":[5],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-56269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56269","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}