on medical leave<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0after he\u00a0took ill earlier in the day, and was undergoing medical checks.<\/p>\nControversy over swearing-in<\/strong><\/p>\nThe law concerning the swearing-in was breached by a former Speaker of Parliament,\u00a0Doe Adjaho in 2014, when he refused to\u00a0take the oath of office as acting President at a point.<\/p>\n
Both President Mahama and his Vice Kwesi Amissah-Arthur had traveled outside the country at the time.<\/p>\n
This compelled the Managing Director of Citi FM, Samuel Atta-Mensah, and a United States-based Ghanaian lawyer, Prof. Kwaku Asare, to file a suit at the Supreme Court, to among other things, seek an interpretation of Article 60 (12) of the 1992 Constitution, which requires that the Speaker takes the oath of office each time he is to act as President.<\/p>\n
The Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, declared that the Speaker of Parliament, Edward Doe Adjaho, violated Article 60 (11)-(12) of the 1992 Constitution when he declined to be sworn in to act as President.<\/p>\n
The nine-member panel, presided over by Justice Sophia Akuffo, also averred that the \u201cSpeaker of Parliament shall always, before assuming the functions of the Office of President when the President and the Vice-President are unable to perform their functions, take and subscribe to the oath set out in relation to the Office of President\u201d.<\/p>\n
Some have however insisted that the law is obsolete, considering that a President on an international assignment remains a President, and so he or she doesn\u2019t need anyone to act in his absence.<\/p>\n
\u2013<\/p>\n
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