Embattled UFP presidential candidate gives up

Mr. Akwasi Addai, popularly known as “Odike” has given up the fight to contest the December 7 presidential poll on the ticket of the United Front Party (UFP).

This followed his decision not to continue with the legal suit filed in a Kumasi High Court, challenging his dismissal by the national executive committee.

Mr. Addai had on December 10, last year, been elected the flag-bearer of the UFP, but was dramatically removed by the party’s national executive for political inertness and pocketing fund donations among other accusations.

This led to the holding of another delegates’ congress in Cape Coast on August 29, to pick Mr. Kwaku Owusu Antwi, as the new leader.

That set Mr. Addai on a collision course with the national executive, culminating in the legal action he brought against the executives.

He was seeking, among other reliefs, a declaration that his dismissal as flag-bearer was wrongful, to restrain the party from nominating a new presidential candidate and special damages.

A notice of discontinuance to the Registrar of the Kumasi High Court “5” and signed by his lawyers said their client “seeks leave to discontinue his action against the defendants with liberty to come back”.

It copied the defendants, who included Nana Agyenim Boateng, the National Chairman, Razak Kojo Opoku, Deputy General Secretary and Kwaku Antwi Owusu, the Ashanti Regional Chairman.