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The NDC Presidential and Parliamentary primaries scheduled for Saturday, May 13, 2023 may or may not come off as planned as one of the Presidential aspirants of the party, Dr. Kwabena Duffour has filed for an interlocutory injunction against the primaries.

As a result, the Electoral Commission says it will not supervise the primaries in order to avoid contempt.

"Earlier this week, the Commission received a letter from the Kwabena Duffuor Campaign Team alleging various errors and anomalies with the Register. It was based on this, that the Commission felt it necessary to meet with the Elections Committee of the NDC as well as the representatives of the Presidential Aspirants to deliberate on this matter and agree on a way forward...yesterday we were served with an Application for Interlocutory Injunction seeking to restrain the Commission from supervising the conduct of the Presidential and Parliamentary Primaries due to the alleged anomalies with the register," she said in a meeting on Wednesday, May 10, with the Elections Committee of the NDC.

The court is said to give a verdict tomorrow, May 12, on whether or not the primaries will be held on the scheduled date.

As the party awaits the verdict, Charles Owusu, a former Head of Monitoring Unit at the Forestry Commission, advised Dr. Kwabena Duffour and the NDC to accept whatever decision is made by the court.

"Of course, you have sent the matter to court but it doesn't mean you have won. If the court decides that these wrongs should be corrected and the elections be held as planned, he should accept it because he knew the primaries are on this Saturday; so he had made preparations for the elections. I'm sure. It is not the court that will make him prepared for the elections. Therefore, if he truly knows victory belongs to him, he should accept whatever the court rules...Accept verdict whatever way it goes," he briefly admonished Dr. Duffour.

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