Threat to kill judges: PPP disowns Nelson

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has stated that one Alistair Nelson, reported to have made a threat on the lives of Supreme Court judges recently, has long ceased to be a member of the party.

Mr. Nelson, as a panelist on Pampaso on Montie FM in Accra on June 29, warned judges of Ghana’s highest court to be wary of their conduct in the case involving the Electoral Commission and Mr Abu Ramadan, if they did not want to suffer the fate of the three members of the bench who were shot to death and burnt in the early 1980s in the days of the Provisional National Defense Council (PNDC).

Mr Nelson has communicated his apologies for those comments, but speaking to Accra News Sunday July 3, 2016, Mr Divine Nkrumah, the PPP’s Youth Organiser, said reports that Mr Nelson was a member of the PPP were false.

According to him, Mr Nelson had declared on several radio stations that he was a spokesperson of President John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress, and even though he had not formally notified the party of his decision, his declaration automatically made his position in the PPP untenable.

Mr Nelson, Mr Nkrumah explained, had on several occasions, failed to appear before the disciplinary committee of the PPP to answer for certain actions of his, which threatened to bring the name of the party into disrepute since October 2015.

Thus, he was surprised that those who pushed Nelson to make such “reckless comments” had decided to disown him and had sought to drag the PPP into the matter.

“So his paymasters who incited him to go and make such comments on Montie FM, they should do their damage control,” he said.

“We do not endorse comments that wreck a nation, so even if he were a member [of the PPP], we call on the Supreme Court and the powers that be that we are a disciplined political party, so they should drag him before the courts and deal with him as is required, in order that comments that lead to confusion and violence are addressed and never arise again. So whether or not he is a member, we condemn the comments and we do not want our member talking like that to bring disgrace to our party.”