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Deputy Propaganda Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) Solomon Nkansah says the opposition must not bask in the glory and adulation being heaped on the former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Hon. Nii Ayikoi Otoo for his exceptional legal performance which resulted in him getting the nine angry Supreme Court Judges to waive a jail sentence meant for the NPP�s General Secretary Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie and a youth activist, Hopeson Adorye who were facing criminal contempt charges. Making his submission on Okay fm he said that Hon. Nii Ayikoi Otoo appeared before the Supreme Court judges with respect and also because he is senior lawyer of good standing, and also demonstrated that Ghana first before his party NPP. He reiterated that �one opportunity and strength of Sir John and Hopeson Adorye on their escape from prison was on the single achievement of lawyer Nii Ayikoi Otoo for himself and not for his party; in that when the NPP rained insults on the Judges, he denied the interest of his party for the interest of the country by condemning the attack on the Supreme Court�. He recounted that when some members of NPP flouted the law of contempt, Hon. Ayikoi Otoo supported the decision of the Supreme Court to penalize those offenders as against the decision of NPP to castigate the invitation of Sammy Awuku by the court. The NDC National Executive wondered why Hon. Ayikoi Otoo, who is the Chairman of the party�s Legal Committee and a senior lawyer at the Bar to Philip Addison was marginalized in the formation of a committee to look into the legal matters relating to the 2012 election petition. �And so if the NPP ignores this man in the formation of a committee with Dr. Bawumia as the head to look into the legal matters relating to the 2012 election petition, then we should expect anything worse from the NPP�, he averred.