President Mills named Mr. Owusu-Acheampong who represents the Brong Ahafo Region on the Council of State as head of his campaign team when he launched it earlier this month.
Mr. Ofosu-Appiah, a civil rights lawyer says he foresees a problem if other members of the council take a cue from what the president has done and decide to join the campaign teams of other political parties.
Mr. Ofosu-Appiah, in an interview with Joy News said “members of the council cannot do active partisan politics because of their standing in our body politic in the sense that they are supposed to counsel the president in the performance of his duties.”
He therefore wants the Supreme Court to declare Mr. Owusu-Acheampong’s appointment null and void.
But speaking to Joy News, Mr. J.H. Owusu-Acheampong said he is unperturbed by the suit and that the courts should be allowed to pronounce on the matter. “It is their right to try to do what they want but the law would have to take its course. It is what the law will say that is important to me,” he stated.
Mr. Owusu-Acheampong said “I have every right to be a chairman of the campaign team because being a member of the Council of State does not preclude me from being a campaign team manager.”
Asked whether he was going to continue his work as a campaign manager of President Mills, Mr Owusu-Acheampong answered in the affirmative insisting, “I am going to go ahead… I am in Brong Ahafo. I am coming to Accra [and we will consult our lawyers to see how best we can handle this one.”
He said the campaign which will run for two months will not prevent him from performing his duties as a Council of State member.
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