'Not the end of the road' - Assafuah reacts to Supreme Court ruling on CJ suspension petition

The Member of Parliament for Tafo Constituency, Ekow Vincent Assafuah, has stated that the section remains unfastened successful his quest to reverse President John Dramani Mahama’s suspension of Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo.

Addressing the media pursuing the Supreme Court’s dismissal of his petition seeking a reversal of the suspension, the Tafo MP said helium volition appropriately counsel himself erstwhile helium receives the afloat reasoning of the court.

“I don’t deliberation this is the extremity of the road, but let’s conscionable get the reasoning first. Of course, the 3:2 suggests that the Supreme Court itself sees thing successful the statement that we made successful court. It tells you that our statement oregon the reasoning we precocious is rather potent. So, let’s get the reasoning, and erstwhile we do, we volition determine what steps to instrumentality aft assessing it,” helium told the media connected May 6, 2025.

He, however, expressed beardown disagreement with the determination of the court.

A five-member sheet of the apex court, chaired by the Acting Chief Justice, Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie, connected Tuesday, May 6, 2025, dismissed the petition filed by the Member of Parliament for Old Tafo, Vincent Ekow Assafuah, by a 3:2 bulk decision.

The justices who voted to disregard the exertion included Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie, Justice Yonny Kulendi, and Justice Amadu Omoro Tanko.

The dissenting justices were Justice Ernest Gaewu and Justice Henrietta Mensah-Bonsu.

The seat of the sheet announced that the afloat judgement would beryllium released connected May 21, 2025.

Vincent Ekow Assafuah had filed a question astatine the Supreme Court seeking to halt the suspension of Chief Justice Gertrude Araba Sackey Torkornoo by President John Dramani Mahama.

The application, filed connected Thursday, April 24, 2025, requested the Supreme Court to contented an bid restraining immoderate further enactment related to the Chief Justice’s removal nether Article 146 until the tribunal delivers its last ruling connected a pending substance related to the issue.

Assafuah, done his lawyers, besides requested that the tribunal restrain the committee of enquiry established by the president from proceeding with its probe into the petitions filed against the Chief Justice.

In the suit, the lawmaker argued that the petition against the Chief Justice, her consequent suspension, and the enactment of a committee to analyse the substance are “a farce and the merchandise of a preconceived orchestration to unconstitutionally region the Chief Justice from office.”

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