The People’s National Convention (PNC) has cried foul over the recent receipt of provisional certification by the People’s National Party (PNP) from the Electoral Commission (EC) to prepare for the 2024 elections.
This comes after the National Executive Council of the Peoples Nation Convention (PNC) threatened legal action against the revival of the party that brought Dr Hilla Limann to power in 1979.
The PNP was revived after the founding members broke away from the PNC after three years of internal wrangling among the leadership of the latter.
The leadership of the PNC at an earlier National Executive Council meeting threatened legal action against the revival of the PNP by Janet Asana Nabla and her defected team, claiming that they have no right to associate themselves with anything Dr Hilla Limann since they have chosen to break away from the PNC.
David Apasera was captured on record to have said that, “the decision by some disgruntled members of the PNC to resurrect our antecedent party, the PNP is an attempt to confuse members of our party and Ghanaians and therefore shall not see the light of day.”
“All those who have gone as we have said, the PNP cannot see the light of day because we are going to challenge it,” he emphasised.
Now lawyers for the PNC have recently petitioned the EC to express its opposition.
In the statement dated July 16, the party insisted that even though the PNP has obtained a provisional, the EC must not issue them the “final certificate to allow it [PNP] participate in the upcoming elections or any elections for that matter.”
“We have annexed evidence of the name and emblem of the erstwhile People’s National Party (PNP) in our instant letter for your perusal,” the statement further explained
The lawyer, Abu Juan Jagiara added that “In order not to destroy the foundational root of our client, we request that this objection be addressed timeously to bring finality to this issue that has been bothering our client and its (our client’s) teeming supporters and sympathisers alike.”
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