President John Dramani Mahama has stated emphatically that he will not be seeking a third term when Ghana goes to the polls in 2028.
This constitutional restraint, President Mahama said, would give him the free hand to avoid the perennial election year overspending.
“I will not be a candidate in the next elections and therefore I can hold the line when it comes to fiscal discipline,” President Mahama stated.
He made this declaration far away in Singapore when he met the President of Singapore, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, on his three-day State Visit to the Asian country.
According to President Mahama, the unbridled spending during election years for electoral favours have retarded the continuous growth of the Ghanaian economy.
Having secured a landslide victory in the 2024 polls, President Mahama said his government was making economic gains, citing rapid declines in inflation and interest rates, as well as a significant appreciation of the cedi.
He assured that he would hold the line in the run-up to the 2028 polls to sustain the gains to leave behind a stable economy for investments.
Per Article 66(1) of the 1992 Constitution, “A person elected as President shall…hold office for a term of four years beginning from the date he is sworn in as President”.
Article 66(2) adds that “A person shall not be elected to hold office as President of Ghana for more than two terms”.
Despite this constitutional position, there had been speculations, especially from the camp of the opposition party, that Mr Mahama was hatching a third term bid with the review of the Constitution underway.
This is President Mahama’s second term in office having previously occupied the high office of the land between January 7, 2013 and January 6, 2017.
BY JULIUS YAO PETETSI
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