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The Accra Fast Track High court one (1) yesterday issued a bench warrant for the arrest of NDC General Secretary, Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia, aka General Mosquito for failing to appear before the court. The court presided over by Justice Edward Amoako Asante gave the order after Mr Asiedu Nketia failed to turn up several times for proceedings on a court suit filed by some leading executives of the Korle-Klottey NDC asking the court to restrain constituency elections in the area. According to one of the plaintiffs, Mr Ishmael Aduamoah, who is also the youth organiser of the NDC Korle-Klottey, the Accra Fast Track High Court on Friday, 18th December placed an injunction on the party�s elections for the Korle-Klottey constituency. He said Mr Asiedu Nketiah and the Electoral Commission defied the court�s order and went ahead to hold the elections on the 19th December 2009. According to the plaintiffs, the elections that saw the confirmation of Mr Harry Zakkour, former Chief Executive Officers of Accra Hearts of Oak Sporting Club as the new Korle-Klottey NDC Chairman were held in-camera and therefore should be declared null and void. Sources close to the concerned constituency executives of Korle-Klottey alleged that the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Hon. Ishmael Nii Armah Ashitey held secret meetings with some members of the executives who happened to be his favourites and lured them to endorse Mr Harry Zakkour as the constituency chairman for the NDC, arguing that Mr Zakkour has never been a card-bearing member of the NDC, thus rendering his selection null and void. Those who attended the secret meetings with the Greater Accra Regional Minister tabled a motion about their preference for the candidature of Mr Zakkour as the NDC chairman for the Korley-Klottey constituency. Under the circumstance, delegates had no choice than to endorse the decision of the executives through popular acclamation. But the other constituency members of the NDC in the constituency have sworn to make capital out of the situation by bringing to the fore the fact that Mr Zakkour does not even qualify to contest the election, let alone to be elected as the chairman for the constituency.