The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice has been served with the injunction application seeking to restrain the President from proceeding with the process of removal of the Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkornoo, as indicated in the press release from the Presidency on Tuesday 25th March 2025.
It was earlier reported that a Ghanaian citizen, Ebenezer Osei-Owusu had filed a writ in the Supreme Court invoking its original jurisdiction under the 1992 Constitution to declare as unconstitutional, null and void the processes purportedly undertaken by the President of Ghana as contained the aforementioned press release on Tuesday 25th March 2025.
An earlier application along the same lines was filed by Member of Parliament for Old Tafo in the Ashanti Region, Vincent Ekow Assafuah.
With the service of the writ and accompanying injunction application on the Attorney-General, who is the Chief legal advisor of Government, against whom suits directed at the President in the performance of his functions under the Constitution are brought, the consultation process initiated by the President with the Council of State must halt, at least until the determination of the injunction application on 2nd April 2025, lest the President is cited for contempt – which may itself constitute a ground for his removal from office under Article 69 of the 1992 Constitution.
