Retired Supreme Court Justice William Atuguba has criticised the (NPP), accusing the party of manipulating the judiciary as a political shield rather than genuinely upholding justice in the case involving the suspended Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkornoo.

Speaking in an interview on Joy News, monitored by on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, Justice Atuguba dismissed the NPP's resistance to the judicial proceedings as a calculated act of self-preservation rather than a principled defense of due process. "You have been overthrown through the ballot.

Now your final defence is the Chief Justice?

You say, 'If she falls, we all fall.' That's what they are fighting for.