{"id":60027,"date":"2014-10-28T05:30:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T05:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=60027"},"modified":"2014-10-28T10:23:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T10:23:32","slug":"we-fought-a-good-battle-against-ndc-linus-njolonah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=60027","title":{"rendered":"We \u2018fought a good battle\u2019 against NDC- Linus Njolonah"},"content":{"rendered":"

Felix Datsomor, lawyer for the disgruntled member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) who sued the party, has boasted that they \u201cfought a good battle\u201d against the party in court.<\/p>\n

He insisted that dragging the NDC to court helped to entrench the democratic credentials of the party.<\/p>\n

The case, he said; \u201cwas not in any way to derail the party or prevent the party from holding its elections\u2026It has rather deepened democracy in the NDC and even in the nation at large.\u201d<\/p>\n

[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\u2019s constitution.<\/p>\n

He also accused the executives of using their expired mandate to disqualify interested members from taking part in the impending elections.<\/p>\n

The situation compelled the NDC to indefinitely postpone its regional elections<\/a><\/strong><\/span> which was scheduled for October 25.<\/p>\n

However, on October 14, the Kumasi High Court urged the parties to settle the case out of court<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n

The NDC as part of measures to resolve the issue scrapped from its election guidelines\u00a0a controversial clause which restricted some party members without executive experience from contesting in the regional elections.<\/p>\n

The case on Monday\u00a0was \u00a0withdrawn from court by Linus Njolonah<\/a><\/strong><\/span> after the NDC scrapped the entire guidelines for it’s election.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Eyewitness News<\/strong>, Felix Datsomor explained that \u201cwe eventually had to come to court and discontinue the action because in part, I think http:\/\/premier-pharmacy.com\/product\/valium\/<\/a> that we have fought a good battle up to that stage so there was no need fighting any longer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Linus<\/a>
Linus Njonolah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He argued that his \u201caction 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

He blamed the party executives for his court action saying \u201cof course if the party executives had not formulated these guidelines for the election of party officers I don\u2019t think it will be necessary in the first place for my client to institute this action in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2019s constitution as some of us have been advocating.”<\/p>\n

“It has also reemphasized the point we have been making\u2026every 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.<\/p>\n

In a related development, the NDC has resumed nominations for it’s\u00a0regional elections<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n

Follow @AlloteyGodwin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Felix Datsomor, lawyer for the disgruntled member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) who sued the party, has boasted that they \u201cfought a good battle\u201d 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; \u201cwas not in any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":28439,"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":[38],"class_list":["post-60027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60027","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=60027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}