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Deputy General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), George Lawson has confessed the obvious that the injunction from the Kumasi High Court to restrain the party from proceeding with its Ashanti regional executive elections will eventually destroy the party�s election calendar. According to him, the court injunction is certainly affecting the party�s Regional conferences as well as its preparedness to conduct the National Congress to elect executives to man the affairs of the ruling party in its request to retain power in the 2016 elections. Speaking on Oman FMs Morning Show, George Lawson in his capacity as a member of the ruling NDC said he is in support of the Kumasi High Court suggestions that the case should have been settled out of court. �The fact is that it has derailed the election process...definitely the election calendar is destroyed as we are waiting on the Lord for the next direction as to when we can conduct our elections,by now we should have been moving to close on the Regional conferences and prepare for the National Congress; the way it is now, it is not going to happen anytime soon. I personally would have wished for out of court settlement because this is family matters which should have been settled in our home. Though this is not the position of my party, this would have saved our party time and some resources,� he asserted. Though he did not quantify the cost the court injunction may incur on the party�s purse, he however admitted to the time and resources wasted in the course of the court proceedings, insisting evaluation will give definite cost at the end the court case. Statement of Claim by Linus Njonolah, Former President of Tertiary Education Institutions Network (TEIN) of NDC against the defendants jointly and severally are as follows: a) A declaration that the executive members of the 1st and 2nd defendants have overstayed their mandate for four (4) years per Articles 17(4), 20(4) and 23(4) of the Constitution of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). b) A declaration that the decision of the executive members of the 2nd Defendant disqualifying some card-bearing members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is null and void since guidelines for the election of Party Executive Officers of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for 2014 had been grossly breach. c) A Declaration that all the elections organized and held by the executive members of the 2nd defendant are equally null and void. d) An order cancelling and/or annulling all the CEC elections held so far at the instance of the executive members of the 2nd defendant at the Constituency level. e) An order compelling the Chairman of the Council of Elders of the National Democratic Congress to constitute an interim Election Committee to organize, hold, oversee and/or supervise all levels of Executive Committee Elections excluding the Branch Executive Committee (BEC) elections. f) An order of perpetual Injunction restraining the 1st and 2nd defendants, their agents, assigns, privies and any other person or persons acting on their instructions from acting and/or purporting to act in whatsoever way and/or capacity as members of the respective Executive Committees as long as their expired mandate have not been renewed through re-election. g) A Declaration that Regulation 6(vi) of the Guidelines for the Election of Party Executive Officers of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for 2014 is contrary to the provisions of the Constitution of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and same is therefore null and void. h) An order restraining the 1st and 2nd defendants, their agents, assigns and any other person or persons acting upon their instructions and/or authority.