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It was a scene of drama and emotions when the NPP Constituency Chairman for Subin, Alhaji Baba Wallah, vented his spleen and frustrations on a court bailiff, who served him with an injunction order outside the premises of the court. The NPP chairman, who had gone to the court to seek the withdrawal of an injunction order, which had been placed on constituency executives of the party from holding congress by some group of aggrieved supporters, could not believe his eyes when he was served with another injunction order, few minutes after he had managed to secure an approval of the court for an amicable settlement of the pending case. The Subin constituency is yet to organize its constituency elections, following an injunction secured by some group of supporters of the party in the constituency, led by one Mohammed Abubakar, in protest against their exclusion from the contest by the executives of the party. After stepping out of the courtroom, Alhaji Baba was confronted by a bailiff, with another injunction order, secured through a motion filed by a polling station chairperson in the constituency to restrain the executives from holding constituency congress to elect new leaders of the party. Mrs. Angelina Frimpong, the Queen Elizabeth Polling Station chairperson, filed the motion in protest for failure of the constituency executives to conduct elections in her polling station. In his anger and desperation, the NPP Chairman yelled at the bailiff and told him to go away with the summons, after he had been asked to collect the injunction order. �Go away with your letter, I won�t collect it, I am sick and tired of all these problems of injunctions,� he charged. As it that was not enough drama, the constituency Organizer, who accompanied the chairman to the court premises, quickly took to his heels, opened his car door and sped away, when the bailiff attempted to give him the letter. The frustrated Chairman, who could not contain the pressure of having the deal with two interlocutory injunctions, eventually collected the document, but threw it on the ground. It was, however, the intervention of the Ashanti Regional Security, Mr. Samuel Cudjoe, who patiently picked the letter from the ground and gave them back to the Chairman. Alhaji Wallah argued that the court premise was not his office and that if the bailiff wanted to serve him with summons, he should come to his office. Meanwhile, the Chairman responsible for the long-standing legal rumpus in the Ashanti Region, Nana Adu Asabere, has served notice of his intention to seek further extension of the injunction order. According to him, rumours doing the rounds that he has agreed to withdraw the injunction and pave way for the regional conference were not true, cautioning that he would not hesitate to appeal against any decision by the court to lift the order when the court sits on the case on Wednesday January 27, 2010.