The former Chief Justice who served under the erstwhile Akufo-Addo administration faced backlashes after her appointment as a council of state member by President Mahama

Speaking in an interview on TV3, February 23, Sophia Akuffo who was once a Judge at the Supreme Court under the NDC explained that she is not surprised by the criticisms as Ghanaians have become overly partisan, a situation she lamented about.

She emphasized that she is not partisan as suggested, affirming her appointment to the Council of State by President Mahama.

“Well people will always criticize anything and everything. When we wake up and the sun is shining, there will be criticisms when the sun is not shining, there will be criticisms. That’s human nature, it does not surprise me.

“Unfortunately, and I use the word unfortunately very advisedly and with a lot of personal sorrow people have become so embroiled in partisanship that we read politics into everything because I became a Supreme Court Judge under an NDC government, how about that one?

“When people choose to, they forget that one and simply look at the excessively obvious. I don’t think the President was particularly busily searching for my political affiliation, he would probably not find any,” she told Keminni Amanor on Hot Issues.

For her, she sees her appointment as one backed by the constitution and has no reason to object such a nationalistic duty.

“All I knew was that I was occupying a position which is a constitutional position which is a stipulated position or which I qualify that’s all I can say about it.

“There was no room to say no,” she added.

Madam Sophia Akuffo is part of 31-member Council of State, chaired by former Speaker of Parliament Edward Doe Adjaho.

Council of State: I’m there in my own right simply as a former Chief Justice – Sophia Akuffo

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