The petition filed by two members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) against former Attorney General Martin Amidu has been referred to the Disciplinary Committee of the party for the next line of action to be taken, Deputy General Secretary of the NDC, Koku Anyidoho has revealed.
“The petition has been properly received and acknowledged and subsequently forwarded to the disciplinary committee per our standing orders or rules of engagement,” Mr Anyidoho told Moro Awudu on Class91.3FM’s Executive Breakfast Show on Wednesday, 9 August.
Evans Amankwah, a lawyer and 2016 parliamentary candidate of the NDC for Adansi Asokwa and Abigail Elorm Mensah, the party’s 2016 parliamentary candidate for Fanteakwa South, in the petitioned dated August 7, 2017 stated that Mr Amidu has brought and continues to bring the NDC into disrepute and public ridicule contrary to Article 46(8) of the party’s constitution.
Additionally, they feel the utterances and certain articles authored by Mr Amidu have weakened party unity and cohesion contrary to Article 45 of the party’s constitution.
Mr Anyidoho said Mr Amidu will be given a fair hearing and will be invited to face the disciplinary committee to defend the allegations leveled against him.
However, ahead of the invitation, Mr Amidu has described the petitioned as “immoral” since they petitioners chose to leak the petition to the media.
“One of the petitioners shamefully described himself on the published petition as Lawyer Evans Amankwah 2016 Parliamentary candidate Adansi Asokwa. “Lawyer” is not a title which anyone will use to describe himself unless that lawyer has no confidence in his abilities to allow the public to recognise him by using that salutation when referring to him.
“Therefore, I was not surprised when Evans Amankwah and his co-petitioner refused or failed to realise that the NDC Constitution itself recognises that it is inferior to the 1992 Constitution and does not abolish the right of NDC members to exercise their supreme rights as citizens of Ghana to defend the 1992 Constitution against acts of NDC members and Government and even against the NDC Constitution itself when it is inconsistent with and in contravention of the said national Constitution.
“Since when did a Ghanaian citizen lose his Constitutional right to defend the national Constitution simply because he is a member of a political party whose constitution is subordinate to the national Constitution?” Mr Amidu wondered.
Source:Ghana/AccraFM.com
