Thaddeus Sory, the legal representative of the Speaker of , Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has argued that the Supreme Court of Ghana has not issued any specific order against the Speaker's declaration of four parliamentary seats as vacant.
On Tuesday, November 12, 2024, the Supreme Court, by a 5-2 majority decision, ruled that the Speaker's declaration that some four MPs who had filed to contest the 2024 parliamentary election either as independent candidates or on a ticket different from the one they currently represent had vacated their seats was unconstitutional.
Reacting to details of the court's ruling released on Thursday, Thaddeus Sory argued in a Facebook post that the original case filed by the Majority Leader and Member of for Effutu, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, did not include a request to nullify the Speaker's statement as the statement had not been made at the time of the filing.
According to him, the plaintiff ought to have formally amended his original complaint to include the Speaker's decision if he had indeed wanted the court to consider that.