Franklin Cudjoe, the President of the policy think tank IMANI Africa has sarcastically revealed he did not notice the President, Vice President and Speaker of parliament were all out of the country.
According to him, all is still smooth and sailing even without John Mahama, Prof Jane Naana and Alban Bagbin.
Franklin Cudjoe mocked the former. Akufo-Addo government saying no one is digging pits for $58m and no one is being shackled and shaved off their finances.
In an X post, Franklin Cudjoe stated, “I didn’t even notice the president, vice president, and speaker were all out of Ghana. All is smooth and sailing. SALL is fine. No one is digging pits for $58m.
No one is being shackled and shaved off their finances, and no one is giving lectures on how to lock up the dollar in jail. And certainly no renaming of institutions with meaningless titles of deities. Long may it continue”.
His comment comes on the heels of the Minority in Parliament accusing President Mahama of orchestrating what they call an egregious constitutional breach that has left the country without an acting President.
According to the minority, President Mahama violated the 1992 Constitution, following the simultaneous absence of the President, Vice President, and Speaker of Parliament from the country without an Acting President being sworn in.
They noted that all three top government officials were abroad at the same time Jane Naana Opoku-Agyeman the vice president in the UK for medical treatment, and President John Dramani Mahama was also at the African Union Debt Conference in Togo. Speaker Alban Bagbin was also out of the country.
With all three officials unavailable Chief Justice Gertrude Torkonoo is also on suspension and is unable to step in.
Meanwhile, the Acting Chief Executive of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Godwin Edudzi Tamakloe, has rejected claims that Ghana is experiencing a constitutional power vacuum.
Edudzi Tamakloe asserted that the architecture of Ghana’s government is functioning as intended, with institutional continuity fully intact.
Speaking on Face to Face on Channel One TV, he clarified, “I thought there were three – the Judiciary, the Executive, and the Legislature. Is the Acting CJ in Ghana? There is an Acting CJ. It is not personal. It is the office.
So as we speak, there is an Acting CJ of the Republic, and that is the reason we have three arms of government…What I can say is that there is no power vacuum. It does appear that the President is in the country,”
See the post below:
I didn’t even notice the president, vice-president, and speaker were all out of Ghana. All is smooth and sailing. SALL is fine. No one is digging pits for $58m. No one is being shackled and shaved off their finances, and no one is giving lectures on how to lock up the dollar in…
— Franklin CUDJOE (@lordcudjoe) May 14, 2025
