The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) has clarified that President John Dramani Mahama will indeed attend its 2025 Annual Conference in Wa as Guest of Honour, dismissing earlier claims suggesting otherwise.
The controversy began when Franklin Cudjoe, Founding President of IMANI Africa, criticized the GBA on social media for allegedly sidelining the sitting President. "From 2017 to 2024, the Special Guest for the Annual Bar Conference I'm reliably informed has been the President of Ghana.
This year, the Ghana Bar Association has dented the current president its courtesy to invite him," Cudjoe wrote.
He added sarcastically, "Instead they have chosen to invite the president of the UK Bar Council.
