The Chairman of the Constitution Review Committee, Professor Henry Kwasi Prempeh, has said that proposals for a third presidential term found no support during the Committee’s work.

He made the remarks on Monday, December 22, when the Committee presented its report to President John Dramani Mahama at the Jubilee House.

According to Prof. Prempeh, the Committee carefully examined the Constitution to determine whether there was any basis for justifying a third term for a sitting president. That review, he said, yielded nothing.

“We looked and looked, but we couldn’t find a place for a third term for the president,” he told the President.

He explained that beyond the absence of constitutional backing, there was also no political or public appetite for such a change. Even the Presidency itself, he noted, showed no interest in the idea.

“We realised that the President himself doesn’t like it. Nobody really seems to like it,” Prof. Prempeh said. “There wasn’t much demand for it at all.”

The only issue that arose during the Committee’s work, he explained, was a request to clarify possible ambiguities in existing law. However, the Committee chose not to pursue that line of inquiry.

“The only thing was an invitation for us to clarify ambiguity, and we didn’t even want to go there,” he said.

Prof. Prempeh added that the Committee did not believe the relevant legislation, Act 662, raised any serious questions requiring clarification.

“We didn’t think that Act 662 raised any issues in terms of ambiguity,” he concluded.

The Committee’s report, as presented, effectively puts to rest speculation about constitutional changes that could allow a president to seek a third term in office.