{"id":92025,"date":"2025-08-30T14:25:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T14:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=92025"},"modified":"2025-08-30T14:25:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T14:25:36","slug":"all-presidents-consulted-on-changing-4-year-term-constitutional-review-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=92025","title":{"rendered":"All presidents consulted on changing 4-year term \u2013 Constitutional Review Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Secretary to the Constitutional Review Committee, Dr Rainer Akumperigya, has revealed that all former presidents, together with other key stakeholders, have been consulted on whether Ghana\u2019s four-year presidential term should be extended.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Prime Insight on JoyPrime <\/strong>on Saturday, August 30, Dr Akumperigya explained that the committee has engaged experts, civil society groups, academics, and people with close knowledge of the constitution.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have experts, we have academia, we have people that have worked and cut their teeth in these areas, CSOs, people that have invested a lot of energy, we have had discussions with people that are by virtue of their close proximity to the constitution \u2013 former ministers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

According to him, the consultations also involved Ghana\u2019s presidents, past and present.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have had discussions with every living president, President Kufuor, President Akufo-Addo, the sitting president himself was our stakeholder, and all of them proffered certain opinions on this subject matter,\u201d Dr Akumperigya disclosed.<\/p>\n

He explained that one of the recurring concerns raised had to do with the first and last years of a president\u2019s term. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe view that the majority expressed was that the first year, the president, having been elected and sworn into office, is putting his cabinet and government together. And that the last year, in our practice, is usually used in organising elections, so the governance of the country is distracted by the political activity and the heat of politics in the last year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

When asked if this meant there was a broad consensus among the former presidents and other eminent persons that the four-year term may not be enough, Dr Akumperigya confirmed that the matter was a major topic of discussion.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, it certainly came up, not all the ex-presidents, not all the presidents, but it certainly came up. I don\u2019t want to mention names, but of course, the report will include all of that. It certainly came up among the presidents, among eminent persons, among even consultants who worked on the 1992 Constitution. So it is one area we are definitely looking at,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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