{"id":456202,"date":"2025-12-27T17:12:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T17:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2025\/12\/27\/extending-presidential-term-to-five-years-is-a-third-term-in-disguise-martin-kpebu\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T17:12:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T17:12:43","slug":"extending-presidential-term-to-five-years-is-a-third-term-in-disguise-martin-kpebu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2025\/12\/27\/extending-presidential-term-to-five-years-is-a-third-term-in-disguise-martin-kpebu\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Extending presidential term to five years is a third term in disguise’ \u2013 Martin Kpebu"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Martin Martin Kpebu is a private legal practitioner<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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A private legal practitioner, Martin Kpebu, has argued against the proposal by the Constitution Review Committee (CRC) to extend the presidential term of office from four to five years. <\/p>\n

He cautioned that the real danger lies in keeping a poor-performing president in office for an unnecessarily long period. <\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat they have done is to smuggle a third term through the back door. If you add everything up to the current two four-year tenures, it becomes ten years. You have virtually given a bad president two extra years,\u201d he said on TV3\u2019s KeyPoints on December 27, 2025. <\/p>\n

He added that the proposal does not align with the history of the country\u2019s constitutional review processes. <\/p>\n

Martin Kpebu rejects proposal for five-year presidential term <\/p>\n

The CRC has presented its final report to President John Dramani Mahama, outlining extensive proposals for amendments to Ghana\u2019s 1992 Constitution. <\/p>\n

Among the major recommendations is the extension of the presidential term from four years to five years. <\/p>\n

JKB\/MA <\/p>\n

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