The Office of the President on Monday, September 1, 2025, announced the removal of Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo by President .
The decision came just hours after the President received the report of a five-member committee he had set up, in accordance with the 1992 Constitution of Ghana, to probe three petitions seeking the Chief Justice's removal.
Even before the committee began its work, leading figures of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), including Mustapha Gbande, Deputy Director of Operations at the Office of the President, had publicly declared that Justice Torkornoo's fate was already sealed.
Gbande had also asserted that the Chairperson of the (EC), , alongside the Chief Justice, would certainly be removed from office, stressing that their exit was only a matter of time, 3news.com reported.
