Former president John Dramani Mahama has come under fire from Gary Nimako, the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) director of legal affairs, for recent remarks he made about the judiciary.
He claimed that the ex-President’s criticism of the judiciary was harmful to Ghana’s democracy.
According to Gary Nimako, such remarks could endanger Ghanaians’ confidence in the nation’s legal system.
Therefore, he urged the former president to exercise caution in any future comments he makes about the judiciary and labeled them as “unfortunate.”
The NPP’s director of legal affairs dismissed accusations that President Akufo-Addo‘s appointe djudges carried out his instructions.
“It’s very unfortunate, it exposes their lack of understanding of how the court system works, they are making it appear as if the court deals with only political cases. President Akufo-Addo has built over 100 quarters across the country, shouldn’t they be staffed by human beings, judges, and staff? Who is saying that the judges are party people? What is the check to say those there are party people? There’s no appointee serving the interest of the president. It was the same courts that made former president Mahama the president, isn’t it? The same Supreme Court, in 2013, at that time was the court a political court?”
On Saturday, September 2, the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) claimed that President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo had purposefully appointed the most judges to the bench in order to have people who would do his bidding when he is out of office and urged NDC members to “balance out” the bench.
He made this claim during the closing ceremony of the 3rd Annual Lawyers Conference of the NDC.
Mr. Mahama asserted, “Currently, the judiciary is packed with NPP-inclined judges because this government has carried out a deliberate policy of putting their people onto the bench.”
