Mr Akwasi Addai, popularly known as �Odike� has given up the fight to contest the December 7 presidential poll on the ticket of the United Front Party (UFP).
This followed his decision not to continue with the legal suit filed in a Kumasi High Court, challenging his dismissal by the national executive committee.
Mr Addai had on December 10, last year, been elected the flag-bearer of the UFP, but was dramatically removed by the party�s national executive for political inertness and pocketing fund donations among other accusations.
This led to the holding of another delegates� congress in Cape Coast on August 29, to pick Mr Kwaku Owusu Antwi, as the new leader. That set Mr Addai on a collision course with the national executive, culminating in the legal action he brought against the executives.
He was seeking among other reliefs a declaration that his dismissal as flag-bearer was wrongful, to restrain the party from nominating a new presidential candidate and special damages.
A notice of discontinuance to the Registrar of the Kumasi High Court �5� and signed by his lawyers said their client �seeks leave to discontinue his action against the defendants with liberty to come back�. It copied the defendants, who included Nana Agyenim Boateng, the National Chairman, Razak Kojo Opoku, Deputy General Secretary and Kwaku Antwi Owusu, the Ashanti Regional Chairman.
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