The Office of the President has denied allegations made by suspended Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo that her removal is politically motivated. Presidential Spokesperson Felix Kwakye Ofosu said President Mahama has strictly followed constitutional provisions under Article 146, distancing the presidency from any political interference.
Kwakye Ofosu dismissed the accusations as “unfounded and false.”
“The President has kept fidelity to the Constitution from the beginning.
“Let me place on record without fear of contradiction and let me be clear that no such political agenda has occurred. His Excellency the President took an oath to which he was incidentally sworn by Her Ladyship, the Chief Justice herself and in that the oath he swore to abide by the 1992 constitution.
“Any claim, any inference of a political motive to the President in respect of these processes are unfounded, false and cannot be allowed to stand and I wish to place that on record,” he said.
His remarks came shortly after Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo addressed the press on Wednesday, June 25, 2025, reiterating her decision not to resign. She argued that doing so would lend legitimacy to what she described as an unjust process.
“If I resign under these circumstances, I will be saying that this flawed, unknown and opaque process is acceptable. It is not,” she stated.
During her address, the Chief Justice also questioned the decision to hold hearings at the Adu Lodge facility, linking its historical connection to the 1981 murder of judges.
She said this can be read about in the Special Investigative Report on that “terrible event in our national history.”
“It will be recalled that Major Sam Acquah, the military officer who was killed with the three High Court Judges, had been the Director of Human Resources of GIHOC. He was my uncle and my guardian when I entered the University of Ghana in September 1980. I was also living with him at the time he was abducted and murdered.
Was Adu Lodge chosen for this inquiry to make me feel insecure? I think so. And I continue to hold the view that there is no reason to hold a quasi-judicial hearing behind the high walls of Adu Lodge,” Torkornoo noted.
In response, Kwakye Ofosu described the association between the venue and past events as deeply regrettable.
“The attempts to link the dastardly killings of some Supreme Court Judges and a military officer are most disingenuous. This government and President Mahama has nothing to do with killing of Judges.
“There is absolutely no nexus between the petitions that have been brought and the unfortunate incident in our past and so any effort to link the two is regrettable and should not find space in this discourse,” he stated.
