Former Nationwide Patriotic Celebration (NPP) Nationwide Chairman Freddie Blay has entered the constitutional discourse surrounding former President John Dramani Mahama’s potential candidacy within the 2028 normal elections, emphasising that whereas judicial interpretation holds significance, the ultimate authority rests with Ghana’s voting public.
Throughout a Wednesday, June 11, 2025 interview on Oyerepa FM, Blay recognised the Supreme Court docket’s constitutional mandate in authorized interpretation, significantly regarding the disputed presidential two-term provisions.
However, he expressed acceptance of any apex court docket ruling that will allow Mahama’s electoral participation.
The legislation is within the bosom of the judges
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Blay remarked, including,
If it goes to the Supreme Court docket – which has the unique judicial proper to interpret the Structure – and that physique decides that what it means by two phrases is conservatively this or that, I haven’t got an issue with it.
Blay distinguished between judicial interpretation and democratic participation in his evaluation.
The legislation court docket doesn’t vote for a president. The people who represent a panel and will take a look at a case have just one vote every. It’s the folks of this nation who will vote.
The previous NPP chairman additional indicated that ought to Mahama’s Nationwide Democratic Congress (NDC) choose him as their presidential nominee, such a choice would fall inside social gathering prerogatives, with the citizens in the end figuring out the result.
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These observations emerge throughout sustained authorized and political deliberations concerning Mahama’s constitutional eligibility, contemplating his full presidential time period from 2013 to 2017 and his completion of late President John Atta Mills’ remaining tenure from 2012.
The talk has intensified following claims by NPP Nationwide Organiser Henry Nana Boakye, who has alleged that President Mahama is strategically positioning himself for a 3rd presidential time period by means of Supreme Court docket appointments and purported plans to take away Chief Justice Gertrude Sackey Torkornoo.
He is aware of will probably be tough to get a referendum. So, what I can do is pack the court docket with judges who will favour me, then sponsor a judicial interpretation of Article 62, which states that everyone has two phrases.
Subsequently, he seeks an interpretation to imply that the 2 phrases might be steady and consecutive. He desires to depend on such an interpretation to go for a 3rd time period,
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Boakye said throughout a Peace FM interview.
The constitutional query centres on Article 62 interpretation and displays broader considerations about democratic governance and judicial authority in Ghana’s political framework.
