#SaveTheJudiciaryDemo: NPP just wanted to test their popularity; protest was needless – Mustapha Gbande

The Deputy Director of Operations astatine the Presidency, Mustapha Gbande, has described the #SaveTheJudiciaryDemo led by the largest absorption party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), held connected Monday, May 5, 2025, arsenic unnecessary.

According to Gbande, who is besides the Deputy General Secretary of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), the protestation by the conjugation of governmental parties failed to marque immoderate important oregon compelling impact.

An confederation of governmental parties staged the objection connected Monday successful effect to the suspension of Chief Justice Gertrude Araba Sackey Torkornoo and the wide dismissal of nationalist work appointees.

The governmental parties, led by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and including the Ghana Union Movement (GUM), Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG), National Democratic Party (NDP), and the People’s National Party (PNP), on with different groups, aimed to reason respective actions undertaken by the existent government.

According to a connection dated Friday, April 25, 2025, and released by the National Organiser of the NPP, Henry Nana Boakye, the protestation was intended to equine a beardown defence of the country’s constitution and the independency of the judiciary.

However, reacting to the demonstration, Mustapha Gbande suggested that the NPP-led protestation whitethorn person been a strategy to gauge the party’s popularity 4 months aft leaving office.

“I heard my brother’s opening remarks saying they brought ample numbers onto the streets, which is good. Nobody underestimates the NPP and its membership. The statement has ne'er been that the NPP has collapsed due to the fact that it mislaid power. It is inactive a beardown governmental party, and we respect that. Perhaps they wanted to trial their popularity, which is fine.

“But successful the end, they failed to thrust location immoderate meaningful point, due to the fact that clearly, determination was nary request for a objection successful the archetypal place. It is not wrong the purview of Afenyo-Markin oregon my member Agyapa Mercer to marque determinations connected these issues. These matters person generated antithetic opinions—some agree, others disagree—but ultimately, it is not their spot to determine whether these processes align with the law.”