The Minority Caucus in Parliament has severely denounced what it describes as a flagrant violation of the 1992 Constitution after the President, Vice President, and Speaker of Parliament all left the nation at the same time without an Acting President being sworn in.
The Minority said that all three of the senior officials were simultaneously abroad, which they claim violates Article 60 of the Constitution, in a news release released on Monday, May 12, 2025.
The Speaker of Parliament must be sworn in to serve as President in the event that neither the President nor the Vice President are accessible, according to the Constitution.
At the time of the statement, Vice President Jane Naana Opoku-Agyeman was in the UK for medical treatment, and President John Dramani Mahama was in Togo for the African Union Debt Conference.
