The legal team will await full SC ruling before deciding on next move - Vincent Assafuah

The Member of Parliament for Old Tafo, Vincent Ekow Assafuah, has indicated that the ineligible squad down the exertion to halt proceedings for the removal of Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo volition await the afloat reasoning of the Supreme Court earlier deciding connected their adjacent steps.

Speaking to the media soon aft the ruling connected Tuesday, May 6, 2025, helium noted that the Supreme Court’s determination does not people the extremity of the ineligible process.

“The Supreme Court has spoken, and connected May 21, we volition get the details of the reasoning down the ruling. From there, we volition determine the adjacent people of action."

“The 3–2 ruling suggests that the Supreme Court itself saw immoderate merit successful the arguments we presented. It tells you that our statement was rather potent. Let’s hold for the reasoning, and aft assessing it, we’ll determine what to bash next,” helium added.

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

Through his lawyers, Assafuah besides requested that the tribunal restrain the committee of enquiry established by the President from proceeding with the 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 were “a farce and the merchandise of a preconceived orchestration to unconstitutionally region the Chief Justice from office.”

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

A five-member sheet of the apex court, chaired by the Acting Chief Justice, Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie, dismissed the petition filed by Vincent Ekow Assafuah successful a 3:2 bulk decision.

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

The dissenting judges were Justice Ernest Gyaewu and Justice Henrietta Mensah-Bonsu.

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

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