‘Oppressive’ NDC Leading Calculated CJ, EC Heads Removal – Ahiagbah

Richard Ahiagbah

 

The Director of Communications for the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Richard Ahiagbah, has accused the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) of orchestrating a calculated political agenda to remove the heads of constitutional bodies – the Chief Justice (CJ), the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) and her deputies.

According to him, the NDC’s true intent is to remove Justice Gertrude Torkornoo as Chief Justice, which then opens the door for them to remove Jean Mensa as the EC Chair and her two deputies – Dr. Eric Bossman Asare (Corporate Services) and Samuel Tettey (Operations).

His comment followed suggestions by the National Chairman of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia that the entire leadership of the EC must be removed, claiming they are “not fit for purpose.”

“There has to be a change… The three top leadership must all go. They have managed the commission so badly… Resetting the EC means bringing it back to an institution that is fit for purpose. The way it is existing now, it is not fit for purpose,” he said on Joy News on June 25, 2025.

Reacting to the comments on Channel One’s Big Issue on Saturday, Mr. Ahiagbah said it solidifies the NDC’s broader agenda of undermining the independence of state institutions ahead of the 2028 elections.

He also indicated that it has become clear the Chief Justice would be removed from office, although the three petitions calling for her removal are light in weight and inconsequential.

“I am not surprised, these things will materialise. The first stop is the Chief Justice; she is a goner. The commentary of the NDC is clear and explicit that the Chief Justice is going to go, even though the evidence is light and inconsequential. And immediately she is gone, they will go back to remove the EC Chairpersons. It is cast in stone,” he noted.

Oppressive Regime

Mr. Ahiagbah also accused the NDC of trying to remove the Chief Justice in an unprecedented and dangerous manner, indicating that the current NDC government will go down as the most judicially oppressive regime if it succeeds in removing the CJ in this manner.

“This Chief Justice matter—the NDC will go down in history as the most judicially oppressive regime, one that took our judiciary over, subjugated it, if they conclude this process and therefore appoint a CJ to replace Madam Gertrude Torkornoo.

Mr. Ahiagbah added that “It is unheard of that a President would go as far as they are seeking to go in the absence of very compelling, clear-cut evidence of misconduct, or incapacity to perform or execute the task of the office of the CJ.”

There are currently three petition calling for the removal of Justice Torkornoo as the Chief Justice.

Petitions

Three petitions which were filed some time in February 2025, have led to President John Mahama suspending the Chief Justice after the finding of a prima facie case against her by the Council of State.

President Mahama on April 22, 2025, suspended Chief Justice Gertrude Sackey Torkornoo following the setting up of a five-member committee to probe the three petitions calling for her removal from office.

The suspension followed the finding of prima facie by the Council of State following the forwarding of the three petitions by the President.

The committee is chaired by Justice Gabriel Scott Pwamang, a Justice of the Supreme Court and also includes Justice Samuel Kwame Adibu-Asiedu, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Daniel Yaw Domelevo, Major Flora Bazaanura Dalugo and Prof. James Sefah Dzisah.

The Supreme Court has so far dismissed three separate applications calling for the revocation of the suspension and an order nullifying the steps taken by the President in respect of the petitions, as well as the setting up of a five-member committee to probe the petitions.

BY Gibril Abdul Razak

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