“There is absolutely nothing wrong with Dormaahene's comment” — Alex Segbefia

The International Relations Director of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has backed Dormaheene.

According to Mr. Segbefia, the comment made by Dormaahene is nothing to be described as prejudicial.

He said the call for discontinuation of Gyakye Quayson’s trial is the voice of the people who spoke loudly in the Assin-North by-election.

Speaking on TV3 on July 3, the NDC international relations director stated there are far more criminal cases to be tried not James Gyakye Quayson.

“Even before the by-election, in our humble opinion, the case shouldn’t be moving forward. Now that the people have approved and the people have clearly voted for him than his numbers in the 2020 election, it is a clear message that please Attorney General this is not the case you should pursue.

“You have a situation where if you take the words of what Dormaahene said, it is absolutely nothing that anybody hasn’t said already. The fact that he is a judge doesn’t mean that he doesn’t have an opinion,” Alex Segbefia said.

The Dormaahene Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Agyemang Badu II speaking at the Bono, Bono East, Ahafo, and Western North regional version of the Professor John Evans Atta Mills Commemorative Lecture in Sunyani on Saturday [July 1, 2023] appealed for the Attorney General to drop the criminal charges against Quayson.

"As a matter of urgency, I [Dormaahene] am appealing to the President of the Republic [Akufo-Addo], if he has any role to play, that trial should be aborted, and the Attorney-General should as a matter of urgency file a Nolle Prosequi to end that particular decision" and abort the criminal case against Mr. Quayson," he said.

He insisted that it was needless for the Attorney General to continue the case after the chiefs and people of the Assin North constituency re-elected Quayson after he was stripped off the seat by a Supreme Court ruling.

James Gyakye Quayson is facing trial for perjury at the High Court in Accra.