The three most powerful in Ghana - the President of the Republic, the Vice-President and the Speaker of - are all currently out of the country.
President is out of the jurisdiction to attend to other obligations under the African Union; Vice President Prof Naana Jane Opoku-Agyeman is also out of the country seeking medical attention; while the Speaker of , , is also out of the country for an unknown reason.
This has led to a section of the public, mostly proponents of the opposition, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), saying that the country is in a constitutional crisis because the seat of government is vacant, with the leadership of the party threatening to start impeachment proceedings against President Mahama.
They accuse the government of violating the 1992 Constitution of Ghana because nobody is heading the country per the provision of the constitution, which is unacceptable.
