Constitutional and human rights lawyer, Martin Kpebu has stated that the ongoing debacle around the declaration of four vacant seats in parliament is a political tussle and not a matter of constitutional crisis.
His assertion contradicts a position espoused by Chief Justice Gertrude Torkonoo when she led a Supreme Court panel to refuse an application by the Speaker of to set aside the court's earlier decision to suspend the Speaker's declaration of the four vacant seats.
Speaking in an interview on TV3 on Thursday, October 31, 2024, Martin Kpebu described the case as "an NPP versus NDC case." He also raised questions over the impartiality of the bench, specifically on the empaneling of a judge with an association to the ruling New Patriotic Party, Justice Yao Gaewu, to sit on the case.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday, October 30, 2024, rejected a motion by lawyers for the Speaker of to have Justice Gaewu recuse himself from a panel sitting on an application to set aside an earlier ruling of the apex court.