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Lawyers for dropped NDC parliamentary candidate for Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai constituency, Moses Armah, say their client has not offended any law because he is pursuing postgraduate studies and is allowed by law to postpone his national service. They insist party executives do not have the power to pronounce their client guilty of any violation of any law and that only a court of competent jurisdiction reserves the right to come to that conclusion. They further insist that until and unless a court so pronounces that Moses Armah is guilty of violating any law, he remains the duly elected candidate and that anyone chosen by whatever process would be acting illegally. They explained that Moses has written many times to the service secretariat since his graduation to regularize the process and that the failure of the secretariat to provide him with a service PIN in 2008 is the major cause of the delay in his performing his service. They also say he is entitled to postpone his service, which he is in the process of doing, and served notice that anyone picked, to illegally �replace� him will be stopped through due process from holding himself up as the elected candidate of the people for the 2012 parliamentary elections.