A private legal practitioner, Martin Kpebu, has argued against the proposal by the Constitution Review Committee (CRC) to extend the presidential term of office from four to five years.

He cautioned that the real danger lies in keeping a poor-performing president in office for an unnecessarily long period.

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“What they have done is to smuggle a third term through the back door. If you add everything up to the current two four-year tenures, it becomes ten years. You have virtually given a bad president two extra years,” he said on TV3’s KeyPoints on December 27, 2025.

He added that the proposal does not align with the history of the country’s constitutional review processes.

Martin Kpebu rejects proposal for five-year presidential term

The CRC has presented its final report to President John Dramani Mahama, outlining extensive proposals for amendments to Ghana’s 1992 Constitution.

Among the major recommendations is the extension of the presidential term from four years to five years.

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