Oliver Barker-Vormawor, a private legal practitioner and activist, has disclosed what President John Dramani Mahama’s biggest legacy will be.
According to Barker-Vormawor, President Mahama’s biggest legacy will be the evaluation of the constitutional review.
He argued that the 1992 Constitution has clear limitations, adding that the 4th Republic has entrenched elitism at every level and made illusory the promise of probity.
In a post on X, Oliver Barker-Vormawor detailed, “Constitution Review will be the President’s biggest legacy.
The PNDC gave us the 1992 Constitution. We have since seen its limitations as a blueprint for a socially just democracy.
The 4th Republic has entrenched elitism at every level and made illusory the promise of probity, accountability and transparency.
The very ideals that birthed June 4th and the revolution haven’t found their footing to the same extent as the ills the Revolution sought to remove.
Our democracy is less secure, less socially progressive and has produced, in Afenyo-Markin’s words, a single-interest “a political class” across the political divide, which regularly cedes to appeals to stick together to protect themselves at the expense of we the people.
We can change that! We can craft a “social democracy” of our own making.
May the love of the nation prevail in how we think of the path forward.
Take this path to greatness – @JDMahama!
Shalom”.
Meanwhile, President John Dramani Mahama in 2025 disclosed that the report of the Constitution Review Committee will be implemented starting from early 2026.
According to President Mahama, the implementation of the Constitution Review Committee report will be done in a bipartisan manner.
Speaking after receiving the final report from the Committee in Accra on Monday, December 22, Mahama stated, “This time we said let’s choose the committee very carefully, so that it’s a committee that Ghanaians have trust in, so that when the report comes it would be nonpartisan, it would not have been influenced by any political interest, so that it would make it easier for all of us to come together and move the process forward,” he noted.
“As soon as we resume early next year, we’re moving from the constitutional review process into the implementation process, and so early next year we’ll announce an implementation committee”, he added.
Also, President Mahama labelled the proposal by the Constitution Review Committee as revolutionary and radical.
According to President Mahama, some of the recommendations are revolutionary and radical, but in the interest of Ghana’s democracy.
President Mahama stressed that the recommendations are necessary to strengthen governance and restore public confidence in democratic institutions, noting that several countries in the subregion are experiencing coups.
Mahama stated, “I think that many of the recommendations you’ve made are quite revolutionary. Some are quite radical, but I think it’s in the interest of our democracy”.
“It is important for us to let our citizens know that democratic governance is still better than any other form of governance.”
He further added, “You were carefully chosen for your integrity, your credibility, and we haven’t had the experience of constitutional review committees before and the fact that at the end of it we had been unable to agree how to move the process forward”.
See the post below:
Constitution Review will be the President’s biggest legacy.
— Osagyefo Oliver Barker-Vormawor (@barkervogues) June 12, 2026
The PNDC gave us the 1992 Constitution. We have since seen its limitations as a blueprint for a socially just democracy.
The 4th Republic has entrenched elitism at every level and made illusory the promise of probity,…
