{"id":585632,"date":"2019-01-15T11:22:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T11:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"
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Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, NDC Chairman<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The opposition\nNational Democratic Congress (NDC) and two of its members who secured a court injunction\nagainst the upcoming presidential primary of the party ahead of the 2"},"modified":"2019-01-15T11:22:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T11:22:15","slug":"ndc-wants-out-of-court-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/01\/15\/ndc-wants-out-of-court-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"NDC Wants Out Of Court Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n

Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, NDC Chairman<\/strong><\/p>\n

The opposition
\nNational Democratic Congress (NDC) and two of its members who secured a court injunction
\nagainst the upcoming presidential primary of the party ahead of the 2020 election
\nhave agreed to settle the matter out court.<\/p>\n

Lawyers for NDC and
\nthe applicants told an Accra High Court which granted the injunction in
\nDecember last year that both parties have agreed to adopt an out-of-court
\nsettlement.<\/p>\n

Samuel Codjoe, who
\nrepresented the party, told the court that discussions were underway to address
\nthe issues raised by the applicants.<\/p>\n

He, therefore,
\nprayed the court to give them three days to finish the discussions and negotiations
\nand file the terms of settlement which would be adopted by the court as consent
\njudgment.<\/p>\n

Christopher King and
\nVictor Adawudu, who represented the two party members, told the court that the negotiations
\nwere ongoing.<\/p>\n

The court, presided
\nover Justice Georgina Datsa Mensah, ordered the two parties to file their terms
\nof settlement in three days which could be adopted as consent judgment.<\/p>\n

Plans by the NDC to
\nhold presidential primary to elect a flagbearer for the 2020 presidential
\nelection appeared to have hit the snag after an Accra High Court granted an interlocutory
\ninjunction against the exercise last December.<\/p>\n

Two members of the
\nparty \u2013 James Kabu Nartey and Abdallah Issah- filed the application challenging
\nthe rules and guidelines set for the presidential election scheduled for
\nJanuary 26, 2019.<\/p>\n

The duo, in the
\nsuit, explained that the guidelines set by the party violate the 1992
\nConstitution of Ghana.<\/p>\n

The party\u2019s initial
\nexorbitant filing fee was also a bone of contention.<\/p>\n

National Executives
\nof the NDC, in December last year, set GH\u00a2400,000 and GH\u00a220,000 as filing and
\nnomination fees for the presidential aspirants.<\/p>\n

Eight out of the
\ninitial 13 aspirants, who were unhappy with the exorbitant fees, petitioned the
\nparty\u2019s Council of Elders for a downward review of the fees.<\/p>\n

The amount was
\nsubsequently slashed to GH\u00a2300,000 after the intervention of former President
\nJerry John Rawlings, who is the Chairman of the Council of Elders and founder
\nof the NDC.<\/p>\n

Notwithstanding the
\ninjunction, seven aspirants filed their nomination before the deadline
\nyesterday.<\/p>\n

They included Second
\nDeputy Speaker of Parliament, Alban Kingsford Sumani Bagbin; former Vice
\nChancellor of University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), Joshua Alabi;
\nformer President John Mahama, ex-Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National
\nHealth Insurance Authority (NHIA), Sylvester Mensah and businessman Nurideen
\nIddrisu, former Minister of Trade and Industry, Ekwow Spio-Garbrah and a cadre,
\nGoosie Tanoh.<\/p>\n

John Mahama, Alban
\nBagbin, Joshua Alabi, Sly Mensah, all filed their nomination on Monday, December
\n17, 2018, while Messrs Iddrisu, Spio-Garbrah and Tanoh submitted their
\nnomination forms on Tuesday, December 18 to generate GH\u00a22.24 million for a
\nparty which claims to be broke after just two years of losing power to the New
\nPatriotic Party (NPP).<\/p>\n

Each aspirant paid GH\u00a2300,000 as a filing fee and GH\u00a220,000 as nomination fee.<\/p>\n

By Gibril Abdul Razak<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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