Professor Kwasi Henry Prempeh has suggested that the proposed five-year presidential term would make it challenging for future presidents who underperform to seek an additional term.
Speaking in an exclusive interview on JoyNews on the Committee’s work, Professor Prempeh explained that a five-year term provides sufficient time for a president to manage the country effectively and pursue key development goals.
However, he said, it will not be easy to convince the populace to grant another term to any president who performs poorly or fails to meet public expectations after serving five years in office.
“A Ghanaian voter might accept that four years is not enough and give you a second term to finish your work. But if we have five years, it is going to be difficult to convince a voter that five years was not enough.”
“So in our logic, if you think from the perspective of a voter, five years is going to be a very difficult thing for the incumbent to come back and ask for more time if they haven’t performed well. So our thinking is that, actually, five years is golfed on the incumbent and will lead to a result where fewer people get a second term.”
“If you have not performed well in five years, Ghanaians are not really going to entertain the thought of giving you another five years,” he added.
He added that the extension is intended to strengthen governance by allowing leaders adequate time to implement their policies, while discouraging premature attempts to extend tenure without achieving meaningful progress.
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