Mahama hints at extending political terms in Ghana to five years

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  • Dr... Mumbi Seraki 4 days ago

    Hello youth of Ghana. You can take your own.life or someone's.life with medicine...for instance 15 tramadol at once...or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide.

  • New age 4 days ago

    Who wants 5 years of mahama or addo. Fck you Mr president

  • New age 4 days ago

    Who wants 5 years of mahama or addo. Fck you Mr president

  • New age 4 days ago

    Who wants 5 years of mahama or addo. Fck you Mr president

  • New age 4 days ago

    Who wants 5 years of mahama or addo. Fck you Mr president

  • Ruthan 4 days ago

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  • The Spear 3 days ago

    No five years, a big shame! Are you people so power drunk?

    It is only in Africa that rotten minds thinking of changing terms of presidential mandate. We refused when Kufuor envisaged such term?

  • The Spear 3 days ago

    4 years is enough. Changing it to 5 years won't help you as a president if you're not already good-intentioned and strategic in your resolve. What a stupid idea! If you can't use 4 years effectively, what's a supplementary on ...
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  • Ohene 2 days ago

    CAPITAL NO!!!!!! NO WAY. Horrible idea. If paties in oppostion can not put their plans together so they go down town if they should come to power but expect 1 year honeymoon to find their feet, then they are not worthy of ...
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  • Paulo 4 days ago

    Any group of politicians who know what they are sbout van do whatever within the four years. Any serious party in opposition should have its persons it intends to put in various positions ready. It can be a shortlist of anout ...
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  • London 4 days ago

    If it isn't democracy that is hypocricy how can you tell us a good leader like Mahama must only spend 4yrs in power, Africans let's be wise oo cus this man is a definition of who a true leader is

  • New age 4 days ago

    Who killed Mills

  • Nana 4 days ago

    No Sensible President would go about building 24hrs Economy Markets around with the scanty resources of its country. President John Dramani Mahama would have faced long term prison sentence if it was Japan or Singapore

  • Nana 4 days ago

    No Sensible President would go about building 24hrs Economy Markets around with the scanty resources of its country. President John Dramani Mahama would have faced long term prison sentence if it was Japan or Singapore

  • Nana 4 days ago

    No Sensible President would go about building 24hrs Economy Markets around with the scanty resources of its country. President John Dramani Mahama would have faced long term prison sentence if it was Japan or Singapore

  • Maame Grace 3 days ago

    Gyea gyimie no.

  • Kwabena Lims 3 days ago

    I love your sarcasm!

  • Paulo 4 days ago

    Any group of politicians who know what they are about can do whatever within the four years. Any serious party in opposition should have its persons it intends to put in various positions ready. It can be a shortlist of about ...
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  • John Mahama, don't be silly!! 4 days ago

    The term is not the problem! What Ghana needs is a vision!

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  • Pelicles 4 days ago

    Mahama, swallow Ghana into your belly, but trust me, you cannot take Ghana into your grave. Give any human who cannot think through issues a thousand years and he is the same fool who cannot think.

  • DSTV Minister 4 days ago

    Why not even 10 ten years President Mahama? The whole thing looks like a joke.

  • Truth 4 days ago

    We want the status quo we know you politicians!

  • Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 4 days ago

    President Mahama, with all due respect, please leave the presidential and parliamentary terms alone. Don't go there.

  • Mukasa 4 days ago

    Less corruption good to go for 5 yrs.
    More corruption end at 4 yrs 1 term.

  • Kaiser 4 days ago

    It's high time we stop treating leadership as popularity contest. If we don't, then we're going to elect people who will win election based on popularity but can't run the country . To give such leaders extended mandate will ...
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  • 5yrs term may not be good for Ghana's democracy 4 days ago

    The suggestion for 5yrs term in office for Presidents, Mps and others is vague designed to allow Presidents and others to still stay in power even when they under performing, corrupt and abuse of power. The best practice of ...
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  • Shane 4 days ago

    With the right leadership, good governance the 4 year term can bear fruits for the country. We can change from our failures. Mahama must stop globe trotting, hopping from country to country with little benefit for our country ...
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  • Fireman 4 days ago

    Good idea. Adding also long term (20 years) agreed (all stakeholders) planned budget aiming long term nationwide development which can't be changed

  • Fireman 4 days ago

    Good idea. Adding also long term (20 years) agreed (all stakeholders) planned budget aiming long term nationwide development which can't be changed

  • Fireman 4 days ago

    Or we go for a primister system voted by majority vote in parliament like UK

  • Mark Pepper 4 days ago

    Hei ! Tread with care. The intention of black man is only breaking the neck of subordinates.
    The United States of America, the most developed nation including the Europeans have It for ONLY 4 (FOUR) YEARS. Every government ...
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  • Kojois 4 days ago

    For who

  • kulbogo 4 days ago

    personally, for once I share this idea with the president, four years. truly is not enough for any gov to achieved it objectives, at least five is better and if a gov failed to perform within these five years period, then tha ...
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  • Nsia 4 days ago

    Absolute bonkers! The least of our priorities in Ghana. Massa, gyae ka na yen ya tie, wae!

  • Fuseini Bawa 4 days ago

    I'm extremely surprised to hear this from President Mahama. When former President J.A Kuffour brought out the idea of five year term for the Presidency, the. NDC and John Mahama lumbasted former President J.A Kuffour to the e ...
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  • Ahene 4 days ago

    Hey Mahama stop there! Don't introduce anything untoward. People like you are a complete mistake. Pres Kuffuor suggested this long ago and people like you simply frowned on it, years on you have now arrived. I beg stop right ...
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  • Patrick 4 days ago

    A five year term with an Executive Precidency?
    God save this country called Ghana.

  • Lopez 4 days ago

    President Mahama, even if you change it to twenty years, nothing good will come out of it. As a leader in opposition you should know at least, most of the people you'll be appointing in your government. Taking a year to set u ...
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  • Oneman 4 days ago

    That is politicians for u.
    When President Kuffour was in power,he raised this topic, and that time, the opposition party, didn't agree.
    That's Africa politics.

  • Osei Kwabena 4 days ago

    In America the term of office is four years yet the country is developing. Shame on our leaders who cannot plan ahead of time.
    Africa leaders are so corrupt that we don't need a five term president to mismanage the economy. ...
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  • Me 3 days ago

    America has a federal system plus they developed that country before they switched to democracy. So for them 4 years is good.

  • Pelicles 4 days ago

    John Mahama, the US had independent in 1776, and their leaders have ruled the country with 4 years in office. Go and see how they have developed their country while the African leader who wants 100 years to rule cannot build ...
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  • No Nonsense 3 days ago

    CAN YOU IMAGINE 10 RULE UNDER THE MOTHER SERPENT OF ALL CORRUPTION SINCE 1957 AND HIS MINISTER OF FINANCE? MY FELLOW GHANAIANS, THINK AGAINOOOO, THINK.

  • Free Radical 3 days ago

    So you are truly a useless president.President John Dramani Mahama my short memory has informed me that according to your own mouth said you don’t need a long term to perform a good governance but the level of dedicated and ...
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  • JULOR CAESAR 3 days ago

    African politicians. Give them power, and they soon rush to extend their length of stay in office. This nonsense is happening across Africa. Instead engaging in nation-building, these African leaders will rather find ways to ...
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  • JULOR CAESAR 3 days ago

    "Instead engaging of in nation-building, these African leaders will rather find ways to ensure their grasp on power."

  • JOB 3 days ago

    Long over due!!,If only politicians will not use it for more stealing instead.

  • Donald T 3 days ago

    Is this not a clever way of doing two terms. One can argue that he has served only one term of the “ new” format and therefore can go for a “second term” of the “ new format !! Massa let’s embrace ourselves for ...
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  • Okatakyie 3 days ago

    It is not in his gift to make changes to entrenched provisions of the constitution. His opinion on this carries no greater weight than that of Kofi Bantama who may want to see a 7 year term as in France!

  • Hmmm 3 days ago

    Zuuku

  • Batuta 3 days ago

    Four years is enough for any serious leader to implement his policies. You must leave after your second four-year term. We won't extend the term for you to flood our communities with needless markets and sanitary pads.

  • Peter 3 days ago

    Mr president, let maintain the four years. If in future we have president like nana addo, who would serve two terms of five years totalling ten years, can we imagine what will happen to us in ghana

  • Yaw mensah 2 days ago

    This man must learn oooo. You made politics about cocoa prices, Free SHS, Flooding in Accra and now you see? Your terms are marked with disasters and this year also, you have it. What do you want the five years for? To kill, ...
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  • Raphael Abeam US 2 days ago

    Very stupid. Is it in the constitution. This man shoult not attempt to bring any chaos in Ghana. Please leave in peace as Nana Addo left peacefully

  • Kj 2 days ago

    Can he will Ghana to his family and take it?

  • Yaw 2 days ago

    THE PRESIDENT IS LACKING IDEAS, EVER SINCE HE ASSUMED OFFICE, NOTHING IS GOING ON. HE HAS FAILED POTOOR.

  • Esa 1 day ago

    Mahama please stop spewing rubbish,yes this is pure nonsense. USA whom we adopted this democracy from have maintained 4years for centuries. J J Rawlings spent 19 good years eleven years unchallenged, what became of it. Don't ...
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