Private legal practitioner Martin Kpebu has strongly rejected a recommendation by the Constitutional Review Committee to extend the presidential term from four to five years.

According to him, extending the current four-year term to the proposed five-year term is unacceptable.

In a Facebook post on December 22, 2025, the lawyer and a member of the Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) committee posted, “Extending the 4-year term to a 5-year term is a NOT NOT.”

According to the Constitutional Review Committee, the current tenure does not allow sufficient time for governments to effectively implement policies.

Presenting the report to President John Dramani Mahama at Jubilee House on Monday, December 22, 2025, Committee Chairman Professor Henry Kwasi Prempeh emphasised that the proposal is aimed at enhancing governance efficiency and deliberately excludes any provision for a third term.

“We couldn’t find a place for a third-term; there was no demand for it, and nobody seemed to support it including President Mahama,” he said.

The Committee also noted that a significant portion of a four-year presidential term in Ghana is often lost to administrative transitions and electioneering.

Professor Prempeh explained, “The President spends about six months settling into office and nearly a year campaigning.”



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