The constitution is clear; Ghana has a two-term presidency - Ato Dadzie on third-term debate

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Pelicles 1 week ago

The "Constitution states categorically that, A person shall not be elected to hold office as President of Ghana for more than "Two Terms". There is not word like "Consecutive" anywhere with that clause so, those who are pushi ...
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The "Constitution states categorically that, A person shall not be elected to hold office as President of Ghana for more than "Two Terms". There is not word like "Consecutive" anywhere with that clause so, those who are pushing John Mahama to go against the constitution, should read it over and over again.
Johnny,Oyarifa -Madina 1 week ago

The question we shd ask ourselves is how special is President John Mahama's performance? Can he compare himself to John Kufour or late Gen I.K. Acheampong who was overthrown & killed by the Founder of NDC? We were so much in ...
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The question we shd ask ourselves is how special is President John Mahama's performance? Can he compare himself to John Kufour or late Gen I.K. Acheampong who was overthrown & killed by the Founder of NDC? We were so much in a hurry to dispose these personalities how much more President Mahama whose regime is ridden with so many Corruption allegation.
Simple and straightforward 1 week ago

I agree with you 1000^% Even JJ respected the constitution and didn’t go for the third term after his too terms.Greedy Mahama

I agree with you 1000^% Even JJ respected the constitution and didn’t go for the third term after his too terms.Greedy Mahama
Nii GA 1 week ago

Spot on Johnny. There's nothing special about Mahama. Indeed, we saw him in 2016. He was so incompetent that the people thought he didn't deserve another term. Even in his current tenure, what NEW or TRANSFORMATIONAL have se ...
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Spot on Johnny. There's nothing special about Mahama. Indeed, we saw him in 2016. He was so incompetent that the people thought he didn't deserve another term. Even in his current tenure, what NEW or TRANSFORMATIONAL have seen. Mahama and his followers should give us a break
Francis 1 week ago

What performance did Kuffuor do?

What performance did Kuffuor do?
plo 1 week ago

While I don't support a third term for President Mahama, I find your post insulting to the president. What did your Kapwepwe or Kufour do in their respective 8 years? You can make your point without making your stupid compari ...
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While I don't support a third term for President Mahama, I find your post insulting to the president. What did your Kapwepwe or Kufour do in their respective 8 years? You can make your point without making your stupid comparison. In any case, did Mahama tell you or Ghanaians that he's considering going for a third-term. Back to the stupid comparision you're making, tell me the achievements of Kuffour and I.K, or you're only being emotional because they are Asantes and your tribemate. Don'r let's bring the ills of these two leaders who have suddenly become saints your dirty and tribally tainted mind
Hmmm 1 week ago

I don’t comment usually, but what are you smoking to say Kuffuor, the thief, had a good government????

I don’t comment usually, but what are you smoking to say Kuffuor, the thief, had a good government????
Kwaku Tee 1 week ago

I don't think President Mahama is himself interested as he has said.It arose bcoz of how the party was hijacked and Mahama imposed on them in 2024. There was no alternative in the person of a younger person to challenge him o ...
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I don't think President Mahama is himself interested as he has said.It arose bcoz of how the party was hijacked and Mahama imposed on them in 2024. There was no alternative in the person of a younger person to challenge him or takeover from him. Now there are all sort of questionable unpresidental materials trying to get the seat after him.Many are afraid they can't compete with Dr Mahamudu Bawumia hence the call for a 3rd Term
Francis 1 week ago

Yea

Yea
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Truth Table 1 week ago

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. (John 10:10) .
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MyBigMouth 1 week ago

Clearly therefore the citizenry is advocating for change. The constitution has probably outlived its two term usefulness.
Give the masses what they want, give them who they want and let's move forward.

Clearly therefore the citizenry is advocating for change. The constitution has probably outlived its two term usefulness.
Give the masses what they want, give them who they want and let's move forward.
Atta Kay 1 week ago

There's nothing wrong with our Constitution , it's our own weak mentality that's deceiving us.Too many Sycophants & Bootlickers surrounding the President. Resignation is not in our DNA, if it was JDM himself shd have resign ...
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There's nothing wrong with our Constitution , it's our own weak mentality that's deceiving us.Too many Sycophants & Bootlickers surrounding the President. Resignation is not in our DNA, if it was JDM himself shd have resigned by now bcoz of poor performance and inability to deliver promises. Akuffo Addo also shd had resigned in his 2nd term when the economy took a nosedive and his FM was misbehaving. I see our Presidents being held hostage bcoz of hangers-on surrounding them, without them they feel there's no hope.
Francis 1 week ago

I personally think the timeframe should be increased and the terms kept.

I personally think the timeframe should be increased and the terms kept.
Paul 1 week ago

Two terms continuity. If there is a break ,it does not hold that theory.

Two terms continuity. If there is a break ,it does not hold that theory.
Nii 1 week ago

Per Supreme Court ruling there will be nothing like Delegates voting in NDC next Congress. Every NDC member will vote in the unlikely event that JDM goes for a 3rd Term.We shall see whether if he will even cross that line. It ...
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Per Supreme Court ruling there will be nothing like Delegates voting in NDC next Congress. Every NDC member will vote in the unlikely event that JDM goes for a 3rd Term.We shall see whether if he will even cross that line. It will be a bloody war in NDC and I can easily predict that the party will split into factions. There are too many hungry men in NDC who bcoz of President Mahama's Low Standards feel they can also President.
Presidency is not a game of hide and seek! 1 week ago

You think the framers of our constitution were planning a game of “Kwasi ko, na ogyina nkwantia” for Ghana? Or do you think that the presidency is a game of hide and seek?

You think the framers of our constitution were planning a game of “Kwasi ko, na ogyina nkwantia” for Ghana? Or do you think that the presidency is a game of hide and seek?
Akajatayogogo 1 week ago

Look at they're faces sitting there, very criminals and wicked people. Just look at them.

Look at they're faces sitting there, very criminals and wicked people. Just look at them.
From Government Official One to a saint? 1 week ago

We have Akuffo Addo and his henchmen to thank for the ridiculous suggestion that Mahamah and a third term presidency could even be mentioned in the same sentence! How does Government Official One suddenly become a saint? But ...
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We have Akuffo Addo and his henchmen to thank for the ridiculous suggestion that Mahamah and a third term presidency could even be mentioned in the same sentence! How does Government Official One suddenly become a saint? But then again, after the NPP sat back and allowed unelected cronies like the Ken Ofori Atta’s, the Bediatuo’s and Gabby Okyere Darko’s to hijack the party and the government, even the devil himself would have been welcome as president!
It’s about time we eschewed the kind of sycophancy which gets us deeper and deeper into the corrupt nation we now live in.
Mahama deserves a third term for what? For giving the state’s gold mine to himself?
I invite all sycophants to go and read about Col Acheampong’s UNIGOV referendum and how Kumasi became the capital of the NO campaign. Yes, the Ashanti’s themselves were having none of his attempt to entrench himself as president in a one party Ghana and voted against him. I know that that would be too much to expect from some tribal groups in Ghana.
But let the sycophants try a third term. He would lose hands down!
“Yaanom, yenoaa no sen, na aamben yi?” (How did we cook this meal for it to end up so inedible?)
SHORT MEMORIES 1 week ago

Those sensible people in the NDC have started speaking.

Those sensible people in the NDC have started speaking.

SHORT MEMORIES 1 week ago

Those sensible people in the NDC have started speaking.

Those sensible people in the NDC have started speaking.
SHORT MEMORIES 1 week ago

Those sensible people in the NDC have started speaking.

Those sensible people in the NDC have started speaking.
Kay 1 week ago

How we allow everyone to vote in Ghana is sh8cking. There are lots of idiots in Ghana. Clearly it is 2 terms yet people can't understand this simple clause. Infact most Ghanaians are not normal.

How we allow everyone to vote in Ghana is sh8cking. There are lots of idiots in Ghana. Clearly it is 2 terms yet people can't understand this simple clause. Infact most Ghanaians are not normal.
Steven Osei Agyeman 1 week ago

Hypocrite, Ato Dadzie!! We know all your Agenda to get your protege Julius Debrah to become President by inciting & using the Council of Elders against General JAN. Now you have turned your weapon on JM.
Your theatrics and ...
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Hypocrite, Ato Dadzie!! We know all your Agenda to get your protege Julius Debrah to become President by inciting & using the Council of Elders against General JAN. Now you have turned your weapon on JM.
Your theatrics and manuvres are being closely watched and would be exposed soon.
Jay 1 week ago

Go and sit somewhere

Go and sit somewhere
Donatus 1 week ago

Massa, forget about the constitution being clear. It is equally clear in the case of the OSP, yet Supreme Court ruled, the OSP can prosecute.

Massa, forget about the constitution being clear. It is equally clear in the case of the OSP, yet Supreme Court ruled, the OSP can prosecute.
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AeSop 1 week ago

Is this clown still around? Apoo, massa, we all saw your smoothness level when you represented that Barker Vormewor loose talker when he apoereaed before the parliamentary disvoplinary committee not so long ago!

Is this clown still around? Apoo, massa, we all saw your smoothness level when you represented that Barker Vormewor loose talker when he apoereaed before the parliamentary disvoplinary committee not so long ago!
AeSop 1 week ago

Is this clown still around? Apoo, massa, we all saw your smoothness level when you represented that Barker Vormewor loose talker when he apoereaed before the parliamentary disvoplinary committee not so long ago!

Is this clown still around? Apoo, massa, we all saw your smoothness level when you represented that Barker Vormewor loose talker when he apoereaed before the parliamentary disvoplinary committee not so long ago!
Maame Abenah 1 week ago

Power corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. President John Dramani Mahama should finish his mandated two terms and allow another to be the next President. We must never tinker with the constitution to self our own ...
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Power corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. President John Dramani Mahama should finish his mandated two terms and allow another to be the next President. We must never tinker with the constitution to self our own interest. A word to the wise is enough.

OYIWA 1 week ago

The serial Ghanaweb anti-NDC trash-talker strikes again!

The serial Ghanaweb anti-NDC trash-talker strikes again!
Niiblue 1 week ago

The two terms means continuous. However, if there is a break and you serve one term and you are voted out it is not two terms. When you are elected again under new government you have to serve two terms.

The two terms means continuous. However, if there is a break and you serve one term and you are voted out it is not two terms. When you are elected again under new government you have to serve two terms.
Niiblue 1 week ago

The two terms means continuous. However, if there is a break and you serve one term and you are voted out it is not two terms. When you are elected again under new government you have to serve two terms.

The two terms means continuous. However, if there is a break and you serve one term and you are voted out it is not two terms. When you are elected again under new government you have to serve two terms.
NANA TRUMU TRUMU ADDO 1 week ago

WHY ALL THIS FUSS?. ARE GHANAIANS SO DUMB?.ATO DADZIE WHATS YOUR PROBLEM?. WHERE DID MAHAMA SAY THAT HE WANTED TO GO FOR A THIRD TERM?. IS IT NOT NPP FOOLS WHO STARTED IT?

WHY ALL THIS FUSS?. ARE GHANAIANS SO DUMB?.ATO DADZIE WHATS YOUR PROBLEM?. WHERE DID MAHAMA SAY THAT HE WANTED TO GO FOR A THIRD TERM?. IS IT NOT NPP FOOLS WHO STARTED IT?
Ako 1 week ago

I find a lot of sense in Kwaku Tee's submission.

I find a lot of sense in Kwaku Tee's submission.
Constitution change 1 week ago

It's clear but harmful, squandering our resources. Look around and see the uncompleted and abandoned projects, and the money were stolen absconded.
Let's make it five terms rather.

It's clear but harmful, squandering our resources. Look around and see the uncompleted and abandoned projects, and the money were stolen absconded.
Let's make it five terms rather.
OSAFO KANTANKA 1 week ago

My Question is why are GHANAIANS so “DISRUPTIVE “ and at Times Evil? Our CONSTITUTION is very CLEAR on A “ TWO-TERM PRESIDENCY. WHY all these “Noises” or unnecessary nonsense and distractions? Are these going to ...
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My Question is why are GHANAIANS so “DISRUPTIVE “ and at Times Evil? Our CONSTITUTION is very CLEAR on A “ TWO-TERM PRESIDENCY. WHY all these “Noises” or unnecessary nonsense and distractions? Are these going to put 2 square Meals on Every Ghanaian Dinner Table each day? Is that going to Fix our economy or our “BAD Roads? Why should the country be developed by “ ONE “ person? What is the political party system for? If our political parties system is going to rely on a single person Without an “IDEOLOGY “ then we should CONSIDER our system of Democracy a complete failure and Shambolic. Why can’t we have “ A TEN YEAR DEVELOPMENT PLAN “ for Education , Healthcare, Agriculture etc… ? We know what we need and what we should do to make it happen But for Greed, Selfishness etc.. we don’t care!!!
BigMouth 1 week ago

Some go on about the Framers of the Constitution and their intent etc etc.
Those Framers lived in different times. The Constitution should be seen as a living document which must be updated as suits to reflect contemporary ...
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Some go on about the Framers of the Constitution and their intent etc etc.
Those Framers lived in different times. The Constitution should be seen as a living document which must be updated as suits to reflect contemporary times, current aspirations, desires and whatnot.
Our lives cannot be hijacked by an archaic document.
We create a constitution, the constitution must not create us. Free your minds.
plo 1 week ago

Please Ghanaians, President MAHAMA has NEVER stood on any platform to declare that he'll run for a third term in office. He has indicated that he will respect the constitution. I don't know where this third-term mantra is com ...
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Please Ghanaians, President MAHAMA has NEVER stood on any platform to declare that he'll run for a third term in office. He has indicated that he will respect the constitution. I don't know where this third-term mantra is coming from and making it look like President Mahama is scheming for a third term when indeed he has stated unequivocally that he will not stand for a 3rd term.
NMG 1 week ago

MAKE HE TRY THRID TERM THAT WHEN HE WILL KNOW GHANAIANS DONT LIKE HIM

MAKE HE TRY THRID TERM THAT WHEN HE WILL KNOW GHANAIANS DONT LIKE HIM
Bonus Baba 1 week ago

Exactly SO. Ghana does not need any 3 term Presidential term limit.
Ghana Ned's a strong leader, like JJ or Trump. Ghana needs a President who does not give a rib to anyone ,whether you are a King / Chief of any sort. ...
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Exactly SO. Ghana does not need any 3 term Presidential term limit.
Ghana Ned's a strong leader, like JJ or Trump. Ghana needs a President who does not give a rib to anyone ,whether you are a King / Chief of any sort. No one is above the law and no one is above the President.Any F*** Chief who thinks he is above the law can start building a 2000 meter high wall around his low IQ region. Ghana needs a younger dude who cares nothing but to put all criminals in jail for good. Finally, NIGERIANS MUST GO JUST AS SA did to other nationals
Pelicles 1 week ago

How old are you and were you around when JJ ruled Ghana as a military leader for more than ten years? Why didn't he make Ghana a paradise? It was under him that our economy was destroyed including more Ghanaians fleeing Ghana ...
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How old are you and were you around when JJ ruled Ghana as a military leader for more than ten years? Why didn't he make Ghana a paradise? It was under him that our economy was destroyed including more Ghanaians fleeing Ghana.

The current constitution was written when JJ was our leader.
Ivory Mensah 1 week ago

Mahama should just pack off after the second term. Sedinam Tamekloes acquittment is what will lead the ndc into opposition

Mahama should just pack off after the second term. Sedinam Tamekloes acquittment is what will lead the ndc into opposition
Raphael Abeam US 1 week ago

What good thing can the NDC government to for mother to seek third term.So they have not seen Ghana is fast sinking

What good thing can the NDC government to for mother to seek third term.So they have not seen Ghana is fast sinking
Raphael Abeam US 1 week ago

What good thing can the NDC government to for mother to seek third term.So they have not seen Ghana is fast sinking

What good thing can the NDC government to for mother to seek third term.So they have not seen Ghana is fast sinking
Raphael Abeam US 1 week ago

What good thing can the NDC government to for mother to seek third term.So they have not seen Ghana is fast sinking

What good thing can the NDC government to for mother to seek third term.So they have not seen Ghana is fast sinking
Mba Geem Bii at Sakote 6 days ago

Is only illiterate and mischevous ghanaians who cannot understand what is obviously 2 terms. No evil manipulations shall prevail

Is only illiterate and mischevous ghanaians who cannot understand what is obviously 2 terms. No evil manipulations shall prevail

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