{"id":217813,"date":"2025-12-23T10:47:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-constitutional-review-no-3rd-term-for-presidents-committee-proposes-two-5-year-terms\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T10:47:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:47:52","slug":"ghana-constitutional-review-no-3rd-term-for-presidents-committee-proposes-two-5-year-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-constitutional-review-no-3rd-term-for-presidents-committee-proposes-two-5-year-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Constitutional Review &#8211; No 3rd Term for Presidents &#8230;Committee Proposes Two 5-Year Terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The Constitutional Review Committee has dismissed any possibility of a third presidential term in Ghana&#8217;s democratic architecture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">According to the Committee, provisions of Article 66(2) of the 1992 Constitution are clear and without ambiguity; hence needed no tweaking when the country goes to the polls for a referendum to amend the constitution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The Article states that &#8220;A person shall not be elected to hold office as President of Ghana for more than two terms&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" \/a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512230120.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Constitutional Review Committee has dismissed any possibility of a third presidential term in Ghana&#8217;s democratic architecture. According to the Committee, provisions of Article 66(2) of the 1992 Constitution are clear and without ambiguity; hence needed no tweaking when the country goes to the polls for a referendum to amend the constitution. The Article states [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":217814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[7975,7585,258,256,5857,9729,4508,4509,257,7527,7995,6399,254,7557,10187],"class_list":["post-217813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-3rd","tag-5year","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-committee","tag-constitutional","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-presidents","tag-proposes","tag-review","tag-south-africa-today","tag-term","tag-terms"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}