Petition to suspend Martin Amidu before disciplinary committee
The Functional National Executive Committee (FNEC) of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has referred the petition to suspend Mr Martin Amidu, a former Attorney-General in the Professor Mills’s administration, to the disciplinary committee.
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The decision of the FNEC was taken at a meeting presided over by the National Chairman and leader of the party, Mr Kofi Portuphy.
Throwing more light on the issue to the Daily Graphic, a Deputy General Secretary of the NDC, Mr Koku Anyidoho, said the decision was taken last Tuesday to forward the petition to the disciplinary committee in accordance with the party’s constitution.
Mr Anyidoho explained that per the NDC’s constitution, a petition against any member of the party was accepted provided the petitioner was in good standing and that in the case of the one against Mr Amidu, the two petitioners, Mr Evans Amankwah, a 2016 parliamentary candidate for Adansi Asokwa in the Ashanti Region, and Abigail Elorm Mensah, a 2016 parliamentary candidate for Fanteakwa South in the Eastern Region, were in conformity with the party’s constitution.
He said the disciplinary committee had 30 days within which to present its report to the FNEC after it had given a fair hearing to all sides on the issue.
Petitioners’ accusations
The petitioners had accused the NDC running mate to the late Professor J.E.A. Mills in the 2000 Election of being a thorn in the flesh of the party as he consistently and publicly accused his fellow party members in the previous government of engaging in corruption.
The petitioners, in a statement, said Mr Amidu, in his recent statements on events in the party, had brought and continued to bring the NDC into disrepute and public ridicule contrary to Article 46 (8) of the party’s constitution.
They called for the party’s disciplinary committee to institute punitive measures against Mr Amidu and prevent him from carrying himself in ways that brought disrespect to the party.
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In a rebuttal, Mr Amidu insisted that the petitioners could not use the NDC’s constitution to gag him since the 1992 Constitution was superior to that of the NDC.
Reacting to Mr Amidu’s claim, the National Organiser of the NDC, Mr Kofi Adams, said Mr Amidu would be given the chance to appear before a committee to defend himself over the allegations levelled against him and if found culpable, sanctioned