Ghana: Will Ghana’s Mahama Grasp the Nettle of Constitutional Reform?

Ghana’s constitution allows an excessively powerful presidency to influence all levels of administration – it must be reformed.

John Mahama won nearly 57% of the votes in Ghana’s December 2024 presidential elections. His National Democratic Congress (NDC) secured about two-thirds of the 276 seats in Parliament. Mahama was previously the country’s president from 2012-17.

The early concession by Mahama’s main opponent, then vice-president Mahamudu Bawumia of the New Patriotic Party, and the peaceful…