CONSTITUTIONAL LEGALITIES

Following the swearing in of John Dramani Mahama as president of the republic, expectations were high that a vice president will be nominated and approved by parliament soon. The vice president is expected to partner John Mahama especially in the December polls. Already, a former member of parliament and lawyer, John Ndebugri is accusing the executive branch of government of breaching constitutional provisions by not nominating a vice presidential candidate for John Mahama. But lawyers have sharply disagreed with him. Michael Owusu is the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the Ghana Bar Association and Coordinator of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology law school. However, a Private Legal Practitioner, Lawyer Nana Kwasi Boaitey has meanwhile been expressing the view that there was no power vacuum between the time that President Mills died on 24^th July at 2.15 pm, and when the then Vice President was sworn into office as President the same day. According to him, the constitution states that the vice president takes office immediately after the demise of the president, even before he is officially sworn into office.