Martin Luther Kpebu, legal practitioner and social activist, has proposed an amendment to the 1992 Constitution to make it easier for a ruling party to recall a non-performing President.
He says Ghana should borrow from the United Kingdom’s parliamentary system where Prime Ministers are replaced when they fail to perform.
Speaking on Ghana Tonight on TV3 on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, Kpebu, who said Ghana does not operate a pure presidential system but a hybrid one, noted that the Constitution can be amended to allow for recall of a President within the four-year term.
“So we should rather be amending the constitution to make it easy for a party that has won power to be able to recall the President. That’s the party that has won power; the President comes from a party, it should be easier for them to take him off and bring on a new person as long as it is within the four years so that within four years if we have three people becoming Presidents, yes,” he said.
According to him, if a President who won a general election is not performing, his party should be able to recall him and bring in a new person just like what happens in the UK.
“Because the one who won the general election, if he takes over and is not doing well, his party should be able to recall him and then bring in a new person like what they (UK) are doing. So that’s like the parliamentary system,” he noted.
He said although Ghana should keep the presidential vote, it can borrow the recall mechanism from the parliamentary system in the UK.
“But we should keep the presidential vote but we can amend our constitution to borrow that thing from the parliamentary system. Afterall Ghana is not a pure presidential system of governance. We are doing a hybrid so we can borrow again from the parliamentary,” he added.
His comments follow a lawsuit filed by the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) at the Supreme Court on July 28, 2026, invoking the court’s original jurisdiction to interpret Articles 58(2) and 66(1), (2) and (3)(a) of the 1992 Constitution on the presidential term limit.”
The suit follows claims by a section of the political divide that President John Dramani Mahama could go for a third term since his two-term mandate was not consecutive.
However, Kpebu has maintained that Ghana does not need a third term because the country does not want one person to rule for more than eight years, stressing that the focus should rather be on making it possible to recall non-performing Presidents.
