Leader and founder of Glorious Word and Power Ministries International, Rev. Dr Isaac Owusu Bempah has showered praises on president John Dramani Mahama for sterling performance within his one year in office.

According to him, President Mahama has demonstrated that he is capable of managing the economy and the turning the lifes of Ghanaians around.

Speaking on Okay Fm’s Ade Akye Abia programme, the once critic of the president noted that it is an undeniable fact that the president is doing well and has demonstrated enough that he is capable of handling the economy better.

Are Ghanaians aware of the things President Mahama is doing and will they allow him to stay in power for just one term, he quizzed.

I believed that Ghanaians should have a second look at whatever will prevent President John Mahama from contesting again. 

“I know a lot of Ghanaians will insult me for saying this but i believe that John Mahama should be given the chance to contest again to continue the good works he has started other than that he should be allowed to select a good person like him to take over from him if the constitution won’t permit him to contest again”, he added.

I won’t seek 3rd term … Pres Mahama affirms

President John Dramani Mahama has stated emphatically that he will not be seeking a third term when Gha­na goes to the polls in 2028.

This constitutional restraint, Pres­ident Mahama said, would give him the free hand to avoid the perennial election year overspending.

“I will not be a candidate in the next elections and therefore I can hold the line when it comes to fiscal discipline,” President Mahama stated.

He made this declaration far away in Singapore when he met the President of Singapore, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, on his three-day State Visit to the Asian country.

According to President Mahama, the unbridled spending during elec­tion years for electoral favours have retarded the continuous growth of the Ghanaian economy

Having secured a landslide victory in the 2024 polls, President Mahama said his government was making eco­nomic gains, citing rapid declines in inflation and interest rates, as well as a significant appreciation of the cedi.

He assured that he would hold the line in the run-up to the 2028 polls to sustain the gains to leave behind a stable economy for investments.

Per Article 66(1) of the 1992 Con­stitution, “A person elected as Presi­dent shall…hold office for a term of four years beginning from the date he is sworn in as President”.

Article 66(2) adds that “A person shall not be elected to hold office as President of Ghana for more than two terms”.

Despite this constitutional posi­tion, there had been speculations, especially from the camp of the op­position party, that Mr Mahama was hatching a third term bid with the review of the Constitution underway.