Dr Kwabena Duffuor has withdrawn the court case against the National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential primary.

This paves the way for the presidential and parliamentary primaries to go ahead on Saturday, May 13, 2023. 

Dr Duffuor’s lawyers on Friday morning told the High Court in Accra that they were discontinuing the case.

Graphic Online’s Justice Agbenorsi reports that the High Court in Accra has therefore struck out the application, which sought to put on hold the National Democratic Congress’s (NDC) presidential and parliamentary primaries until some alleged anomalies in the register were resolved. 

That was after lawyers for the applicant,  Dr Kwabena Duffuor, a flag bearer aspirant, withdrew the application at the Court today (May 12). 

The lawyer, Opoku Amponsah, said, “I have instructions to discontinue the case.

“The discussion came up this morning for which reason I could not file the necessary processes”, he told the court. 

The presiding judge Mariam Afful,  subsequently struck out the application as withdrawn. 

Briefing journalists after the proceedings, the General Secretary of the party, Fifi Fiavi Kwetey, said the elections would commence at exactly 7 am on Saturday (May 13, 2023) as scheduled. 

Source: Graphiconline