NPP’s Ahiagbah Questions Timing of EC, SP Clearance (Says Cocoa Crisis Deserves Spotlight)
Richard Ahiagbah, the New Patriotic Party’s Director of Communications, has questioned the timing of the Electoral Commission and Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng’s clearance from petitions claiming misconduct. He says it takes people’s minds off of important issues in the cocoa sector. On TV3’s KeyPoints, he said that the media’s focus on the petition has taken attention away from the cocoa crisis. He also asked why this petition was fast-tracked while others, like that of private lawyer Martin Kpebu, are still unresolved. In a letter to President John Dramani Mahama on January 26, 2026, Chief Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie said that there is no constitutional reason to fire EC Chair Jean Mensa, her deputies Dr. Bossman Eric Asare and Samuel Tettey, or the Special Prosecutor. This effectively threw out the ten petitions that were filed in late 2025. The Chief Justice said that the petitions did not show a prima facie case under Article 146 of the 1992 Constitution and Section 15 of the Office of the Special Prosecutor Act, 2017. This stopped any more constitutional removal proceedings. Felix Kwakye Ofosu signed a statement that told people what happened.
