Majority Leader and MP for Bawku Central, Mahama AyarigaMajority Leader and MP for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga, has refuted accusations by Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin that former President John Dramani Mahama and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) are working toward a “third term agenda.”
On Thursday, May 1, Afenyo-Markin claimed that President Mahama’s recent nomination of seven Supreme Court justices forms part of a wider plan to extend his stay in power beyond the constitutional limit of two terms.
Responding to the claim on an Accra-based TV station today, Mahama Ayariga rejected the assertion as baseless and politically motivated.
“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,” he said.
He added that the Minority was rather the one forcing that 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 is the one putting this in the minds of Ghanaians,” he stated.
The Bawku Central MP clarified that speculation about President Mahama pursuing a third term had emerged even before he officially entered the race to become the NDC’s flagbearer for the 2024 general elections.
“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 emphasised.
