Majority Leader and Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga, has firmly rejected claims that President John Dramani Mahama and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) are laying the groundwork for an unconstitutional third term in office.
Speaking in an interview on Citi Prime News, Ayariga dismissed Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin’s suggestion that President Mahama’s recent nomination of seven Supreme Court judges is part of a long-planned “third term agenda.”
“It is obvious that the bold attempts by the president to nominate, out of the blue, seven judges to the Supreme Court are the first major attempt at all that they have rehearsed — a third term agenda,” Afenyo-Markin had claimed on Thursday, May 1.
In response, Ayariga insisted that such speculation is unfounded and politically motivated.
“I think he is the one who is putting the idea in the minds of Ghanaians. I am not sure I have heard Ghanaians having that discussion or even the strategists of the NDC having that conversation,” he said, adding, “He is the one putting this in the minds of Ghanaians.”
Ayariga noted that the notion of Mahama seeking a third term was already part of public discourse before the former president even filed to run for re-election in 2024.
“The conversation of him running for a third term even came up before he filed to contest as flagbearer of the NDC in the 2024 general election.
Indeed, some people threatened to go to the Supreme Court to stop him from contesting because they thought he would contest for a third term,” he recalled.
