President John Agyekum Kufuor left Accra on Wednesday night for Paris, France, whilst the Vice President, Alhaji Aliu Mahama, left Accra on March 14 on a three-nation two-week investment tour.

According to the constitution:

(11) Where the President and the Vice-President are both unable to perform the functions of the President, the Speaker of Parliament shall perfom those functions until the President or the Vice-President is able to perfom those fuctions or a new President assumes office, as the case may be.

So, is the Speaker of Parliament, Ebenezer B. Sakyi-Hughes, now the "acting" president of Ghana? Probably not, because the President and vice can still perform their duties from abroad?