Not long ago, on the pulpit of his auditorium, Archbishop Duncan Williams put it out to his congregation that it is a joke to see real development under four years of government.
This wasn’t surprising since the archbishop was the chosen one who led the president’s meeting with the clergy. The assumption that the archbishop has to say something to appease the president for his phone call to be placed directly to the president is not anything to be hidden.
What is more surprising is what seems to be a reinforcement of what Archbishop Duncan Williams said, which President Mahama’s ally, former President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria, did when granted an interview on Citi Newsroom, repeating the words of the man of God that four years is not enough to deliver development.
It looks like President Mahama is manoeuvring for his term to be extended to a third term. If that is the idea, then President Mahama must be told in plain language that no constitutional amendment will favour that intent.
Ghana is neither Togo nor La Côte d’Ivoire to hold the people to ransom for one individual’s intention and parochial interest to be materialised. We the people of Ghana have chosen for ourselves a two-term limit of governance, and nothing can change that, even if blood has to be shared in the protection of the constitution; it will be shared.
