President John Mahama has told Aljazeera that no Ghanaian President can arbitrarily extend his tenure of office beyond the two-term constitutional limit.
Answering a question about democracy in Africa and why some leaders on the Continent perpetuate their stay in office, the ECOWAS Chair said: �Well I can�t speak for other countries. I can speak for my country.�
�My country has a strict two-term limit and I don�t think that any president in Ghana can change that: it�s an entrenched clause in our constitution, very entrenched and I don�t think that any leader can change that or attempt to change it,� Mahama stressed.
He said, as far as the Continent is concerned, ��different countries have different constitutions,� adding: ��I don�t like to be judgmental.�
�I don�t think that democracy is a one size-fits-all situation,� President Mahama argued.
�I think that people have to learn democracy; it�s a process and as society advances, democracy will continue to take roots based on the culture and peculiarity of the people.
�This ruler that we use to measure every society, I think is not the right thing to do,� he contended.
Source: Starr FM
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