Okudjeto To NPP; Blame Yourself For The Court Delays

The Member of Parliament for North Tongu constituency, Hon. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwah says the New Patriotic Party (NPP) have themselves to blame for any delay in resolving the election petition filed at the Supreme Court.

He accused the opposition party of needlessly raising red flags with every court process and quibbling over everything that goes on in the courtroom.

“The NPP feels the NDC joining the case will delay it. If the NPP had just accepted there would have been no objection and we would have completed the matter by now...you are fighting a simple application and then you turn round and say time is being wasted. You raise objections about a member on the panel. You are claiming that you are worried about time yet your own conduct is what delays the case”, he said.

Speaking as a panelist on Radio Gold’s Alhaji and Alhaji programme, the caretaker Deputy Information Minister slammed the NPP for engaging in various ‘duplicities’ since the petition was filed.

He surmised that the NPP are contradicting themselves in court and in the court of public opinion because when one compares what they (NPP) say in court and what they tell their supporters, there is a vast difference.

“The NPP seems to have two cases; one case in court and another one in the court of public opinion. When you listen to them they claim the NDC stole the case and so on but when they go to the court, they are only talking about irregularities, over voting...another duplicity is that the NPP is claiming President John Mahama does not have a case and so he is seeking to drag this case by calling 4800 witnesses so that by the time the 4800 witnesses are called, he would have finished his four year term...most of the figures they are alleging are exaggerated," he stated.