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A member of the Progressive People's Party (PPP), Charles Owusu has hinted that the law suit by Justice Kpegah, a former Supreme Court Judge, is nothing but diversionary tactics to distract the Ghanaian populace from the pending 2012 election case of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), which is before the Supreme Court. Making his submissions on Peace FM�s morning programme �Kokrokoo�, Charles Owusu believed Justice Kpegah�s suit maybe out of hatred for Nana Addo, revealing the former Supreme Court Judge as an NDC loyalist. He wondered why a suit could be filed challenging the legitimacy of the NPP Flagbearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, when the late former President John Evans Atta Mills even attested to Nana Addo�s qualification as a professional lawyer. Justice Kpegah has filed a suit at an Accra High Court challenging the qualification of Nana Akufo-Addo as a lawyer in Ghana. He has accused Nana Addo of impersonating W.A.D Akufo-Addo who is on the roll of lawyers as No. 1190. He filed a writ on Tuesday, March 18, 2013, disclosing that;�A declaration that on a true and proper interpretation of the General Legal Council Act, Act 38 of 1960 (as amended) unless a person is called to the Bar in Ghana and his name entered in the Roll of Lawyers by the body mandated under the said Act 38 (as amended) to regulate the training and certification of persons after a prescribed course of study, that person cannot be deemed competent to practice law in any court of Ghana.� The writ also read that; �A declaration that the Law Firm established as Akufo-Addo, Prempeh and Co. at 67 Kojo Thompson Road, Adabraka, Accra is an illegal law firm and therefore not competent to represent any party in litigation before any court in Ghana". Justice Kpegah is praying the court for �A perpetual injunction restraining the said Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo from holding himself out as a lawyer competent to practice in the Ghanaian courts or anybody regarding him as such,� and so, asked the court to"close down the Akufo-Addo, Prempeh and Co law firm.� However, the PPP Communicator has called for calm to be restored and therefore asked him (Justice Kpegah) to tone down in order not to give room for people to discredit his integrity.