This is not the end of the road – Assafuah reacts to Supreme Court dismissal of his petition on CJ suspension

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 the 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 that we precocious successful tribunal is rather potent, and so, let’s get the reasoning, and erstwhile we get the reasoning, we volition determine what we mean to bash aft assessing the reasoning,” helium told the media.

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

A five-member sheet of the apex tribunal of the land, 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 judges were Justice Ernest Gaewu and Justice Henrietta Mensah-Bonsu.

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

Vincent Ekow 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.

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 has heard and delivered its last ruling connected an already pending substance regarding the issue.

Assafuah, done his lawyers, 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 raised concerns 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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