Ghana Committee Backs Extending President’s Term to Five Years

John Mahama

Photographer: David Dee Delgado/Bloomberg

Ghana’s constitutional review committee recommended extending the president’s term to five years from four.

The committee set up by President John Mahama soon after he took office in January didn’t suggest changing the cap of two terms for the office but proposed reducing the minimum age for a president to 30 years from 40, it said in a final report presented to the leader.