Lawyer for one of the petitioners seeking the removal of Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo, Thaddeus Sory has strongly criticised former Attorney General Godfred Dame, labeling him an “incongruous cry baby”.
The response by the petitioner’s lawyer follows Dame’s comments on Joy FM’s Top Story program, where Dame accused the NDC government of politicising the removal process, pointing to the petitioners’ legal team, Sory, Tsatsu Tsikata, and Oliver Barker-Vormawor, as evidence of NDC bias.
Godfred Dame also claimed to have consistently defended the judiciary during his tenure.
In a Facebook post on May 23, 2025, Sory refuted Dame’s allegations of partisanship, citing his diverse legal history, including representing NPP figures like Ambrose Dery, O.B. Amoah, and Kwaku Kwarteng, as well as defending accused persons in the Ghana @ 50 case.
He challenged Dame’s credibility, accusing him of benefiting from controversial Supreme Court decisions and engaging in unethical practices, such as communicating directly with an accused person behind their counsel’s back.
“You were appointed Deputy Attorney-General by former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, hardly a coincidence. That appointment itself was incongruous. Your elevation to Attorney-General was even more so.
“Do you recall the host of card-carrying NPP lawyers who surrounded you, not as a private legal practitioner, but as Attorney-General, during the Supreme Court proceedings on the vacant seats case?
“And yet, without any shred of moral scruple, you allege that I represent an individual (Dan Ofori) solely because I am NDC-affiliated? Even though I represented this client long before the suspended Chief Justice was elevated to the Court of Appeal?” he questioned.
Sory also addressed Dame’s involvement in Vincent Ekow Assafuah’s dismissed injunction suit against the Chief Justice’s removal proceedings, calling Dame’s persistence audacious after the Supreme Court’s 3-2 ruling on May 6, 2025.
He warned Dame to stop throwing tantrums, threatening a harder response if the behavior continues.
“As I once asked: how did your legal acumen suddenly improve just because you became Attorney-General? Now that the mystique of that office has left you, you cling to a 3-2 loss as some kind of moral victory, because at least it wasn’t unanimous.
“Let me say this clearly: stop the tantrums. The next “knock” may not be a gentle tap. It will land like a sledgehammer… In a hard cast like manner, don’t be silly…” he wrote.
Read the full post by Thaddeus Sory below:
THE INCONGRUOUS CRY BABY AGAIN…
By Thaddeus Sory
1. This will be direct and straight forward… no allegoric narrations. This is because the Cry Baby needs another knock and each time he refuses to heed the lesson from the previous knock, the next knock must be harder.
2. Mr. Incongruous Cry Baby has no sense of shame at all. Having failed to attract attention for some time now, Mr. Cry Baby [Incongruous is his first name] has once again started screaming. This time, the forum for his mostly infamous screams is Joy FM’s Top Story programme, not his favorite forum [and you know where].
3. Without any sense of compunction, Cry Baby “incongruously” lamented thus:
“If there are any group of people who have politicized this process it is the NDC government. Look at the band of lawyers representing the petitioners. Mr. Tsatsu Tsikata, Mr. Thaddeus Sory a lawyer who has gone on record as representing all NDC figures in the past 8 years, and who is very much associated with the NDC, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, a young man who worked with President Mahama in his office”.
4. That, indeed, is most incongruous. Who I ask, are the band of lawyers representing the Suspended Chief Justice? In just about a month you! Yes Mr. Cry Baby have personally appeared in two of the four suits directly involving proceedings for the Chief Justice’s removal.
5. You were appointed Deputy Attorney-General by former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo—hardly a coincidence. That appointment itself was incongruous. Your elevation to Attorney-General was even more so.
6. Do you recall the host of card-carrying NPP lawyers who surrounded you, not as a private legal practitioner, but as Attorney-General, during the Supreme Court proceedings on the vacant seats case?
7. And yet, without any shred of moral scruple, you allege that I represent an individual (Dan Ofori) solely because I am NDC-affiliated? Even though I represented this client long before the suspended chief justice was elevated to the Court of Appeal?
8. Allow me to refresh your memory on my legal diversity: Mr. Ambrose Dery—your colleague Minister—was my pupil master. Together, we defended Mallam Yusuf Isa, who was appointed by President Kufuor.
9. I shared a night at the Police Headquarters with Hon. O.B. Amoah, an NPP stalwart, during a politically sensitive case. I defended accused persons in the Issa Mobila criminal trial, a matter that became a major campaign point for the late President Mills.
10. The firm Kulendi @ Law can attest to the massive support I gave them in the Ghana @ 50 case. Were those accused persons in the Ghana @ 50 case NDC officials?
11. Ask Hon. Kwaku Kwarteng, I represented him in a matter easily perceived as political and anti-NDC. None of the cases I have cited involve the NDC, yet here you are, painting me with a partisan brush.
12. I am a professional, bound by Rule 65 of our legal ethics to represent anyone who retains me, subject only to certain exceptions. If your memory is programmed to interpret everything through an NDC lens, you have my sympathy.
13. In the light of all this, Mr. Cry Baby ridiculously boasted:
“If there is any Attorney-General who, from the start of his appointment, has stood up for the judiciary and spoken against attacks on the judiciary, it is myself.”
14. Your present battle is clearly incongruous. It has nothing to do with principle; it is a blatant effort at self-preservation. Even in that same Joy FM interview, Evans Mensah observed that you appeared before the Supreme Court—presided over by the suspended Chief Justice—under highly suspicious circumstances. And now you claim to be standing on principle?
15. As Attorney-General, you benefited from a stream of unanimous and often controversial decisions in politically charged cases. You were routinely excused for legal oversights that, in earlier years, would have drawn scathing rebuke from the Supreme Court.
16. For the record: I went against my personal principles and appeared on several radio stations to defend the judiciary, despite being directly involved in related matters. I made it clear I would take action against anyone who maligned the judiciary—without any expectation of recognition.
17. And yet again, without hesitation, you proclaimed:
“It is about time good men of this country stood up for what is righteous and what is right.”
18. If all men in Ghana behaved like you, where will the good men be to be fighting a blasphemous cause you have the temerity to call “righteous and what is right?”
19. How can a Minister for Justice:
• Defend a Supreme Court ruling where an ex parte order was granted within two hours of filing—without hearing the other party?
• Communicate directly with an accused person behind the back of their counsel?
• Coach an accused person to implicate a co-accused?
20. Your initial injunction in the Assafuah proxy case was dismissed. Now, you reappear with the appropriate party and file yet another injunction? The audacity is staggering.
21. There is no Attorney-General who has contributed more to the low rating of the judiciary than you. You are the only Attorney-General who has never lost a case etc. What has changed?
22. No Attorney-General has done more to erode public trust in the judiciary than you. You wear your record of “never losing a case” as a badge of honor. What has changed now?
23. As I once asked: how did your legal acumen suddenly improve just because you became Attorney-General? Now that the mystique of that office has left you, you cling to a 3-2 loss as some kind of moral victory, because at least it wasn’t unanimous.
24. Let me say this clearly: stop the tantrums. The next “knock” may not be a gentle tap. It will land like a sledgehammer… In a hard cast like manner, don’t be silly…
GA/KA
