President Oquaye sworn in the presidency

By Benjamin Mensah, GNA

Accra, July 18, GNA – Professor Aaron Michael
Oquaye, the Speaker of Parliament, was sworn into office on Tuesday night as acting president.
President of Ghana, following the absence of President Nana Addo Dankwa
Akufo-Addo and his deputy Mahamudu Bawumia of the country.

Chief Justice Sophia Akufo administered both
the oath of allegiance and the presidential oath before Parliament,
after which the first vice president, Joseph Osei Owusu, who presided,
Majority leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu and his minority counterpart Haruna
Iddrisu, on behalf of the Chamber, congratulated the President on his hypothesis
the highest national political function.

This is the third time in the seventh
Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana that the President swore to
act as president of Ghana.

In his contribution, the leader of the majority
expressed concern at the 1992 Constitution of Ghana for the phraseology used in
the administration of the presidential oath, affirming that the position of the President
The constitution was that of the elected president, if not otherwise.

The oath was lent near 2200
hours amidst cheers from both sides of the House, with words like "Presido,
Presido "," more reshuffle, and sorry Afoko. "

The deputies present teased the
First Vice President, and called him Acting Vice President, which implies that he has
replaced by the President, who is now Acting President, but Mr. Osei-Owusu
calmly protested against the unofficial title.

Articles 60 (11) and 60 (12) of the 1992 Act
Constitution states that "when the president and the vice president are elected
unable to perform the duties of the President, the President of the
Parliament shall exercise these functions until the President or the
The vice president is able to fulfill these functions or a new president badumes
office, as the case may be; the president must, before starting to execute the
functions of the President under clause (11) of this Article, take
subscribe to the oath established in relation to the office of president.

GNA