Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin has slammed the John Mahama government for eyeing a third term in office.
According to Afenyo-Markin, the Mahama government is not performing but wants a third term, adding that the NPP are watching them with an eagle eye.
Speaking in contributing to the debate on the 2026 Mid-Year Budget Review presented by Finance Minister Dr Cassiel Ato Forson in Parliament, Afenyo-Markin stated, “And finally, you claim you want a third term, third term, third term. You are not performing. You said third term… eh, I’m Ato Forson. You are here presenting a budget, and beneath it is a third term agenda where you are going to spend money.
For people to be calling for a third term, we are watching you with eagle eyes. You won’t get the third term today or tomorrow; focus on the 24-hour economy. You promise one job, three shifts. You promise industrialisation. Ghanaian businesses have lost confidence in you. You cancel the 1D1F, which was creating opportunity for the private sector.
In its place, no policy alternatives. Electricity tariffs have gone up over almost 30%. Then you get up, you say you are promoting a 24-hour economy. You have sacked public sector workers. Many of the Ghanaian youth lost their jobs. You sacked them”.
He added, “Today you are here instead of promising to restore them into their rightful places in the job market. You are not doing so. Then you come, you say we should praise you. Who is going to praise you if you don’t pay and you are holding the money, and then you are there tightening belts and only paying your party members, then we should praise you?
We are not interested in the books. We are interested in the economy in our pockets. People are suffering, Mister Speaker. People need jobs. Your youth, even your MPs, they are praising you here. A lot of them are hungry. Your backbenchers, they can’t go back home. Your backbenchers and you here, you say we should praise you. We will not praise you. It is the same old story. As I stand here now”.
Meanwhile, President John Dramani Mahama has bluntly rejected calls for a third presidential term, insisting that his position is clear and will not change.
According to John Mahama, the Supreme Court case on Presidential term limits is not his business.
Mahama disclosed that he believes the constitutional provision governing presidential tenure is clear, following a legal action seeking the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the two-term limit for presidents.
Speaking during the Reset Tour and citizens’ engagement in the Volta Region on Friday, July 17, President Mahama stated, “Let me be very clear. The Constitution is not ambiguous. It is exactly what it says”.
“I have read Article 66 over and over. A president is limited to two terms. Full stop. Those who have gone to the Supreme Court are free to do so. That is their right. But my position is clear, and it will not change.”
He added, “I know that people have gone to the Supreme Court seeking interpretation of the clause that governs the tenure of the president. If you ask my personal opinion, I thought that it was clear enough. I’ve read it over several times; it’s exactly what it says, but if they want to ask the Supreme Court, that is their business”.
“The people of Ghana gave me a mandate for one term. And I am working hard to meet the promises I made them,” he said.
Mahama added that he has urged his ministers to work with urgency to ensure the government fulfils its commitments.
“I always tell my ministers, I say let’s number our days, so that we can work harder to meet the promises we made the Ghanaian people,” he said.
President Mahama added, “But I know that the people of Ghana gave me one additional term, and I’m going to work to meet the trust that they put in me”.
His comments come on the heels of Ken Kuranchie, a Ghanaian news editor and lawyer, filing a writ at the Supreme Court seeking interpretation of Ghana’s presidential term-limit.
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You are not performing, yet you say you want a third term. We are watching you with eagle eyes. – Afenyo-Markin #UTVGhana pic.twitter.com/5mGemPyUfJ
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