Member of Parliament (MP) for Gomoa Central, Kwame Asare Obeng, known as A Plus, has opposed the five-year presidential term limit proposed by the Constitution Review Committee.

Speaking on the Sunrise show on 3FM on Friday, August 14, A Plus said the current four-year term should be reduced to three years rather than extended to five.

“Extending presidential and parliamentary terms to five years is a no-no... Reduce it to three years and remove term limits so you can contest as many times as you want," he said.

A Plus’s comments came after Attorney-General Dr Dominic Ayine said the government had accepted the Constitutional Review Committee’s recommendation to extend the presidential term from four to five years.

Addressing a press conference in Accra on Thursday, July 30, Dr Ayine said the minimum eligible age to contest for president had been reduced from 40 to 35.

"For the avoidance of doubt, this proposed amendment does not apply to the incumbent President," he added.

The Constitutional Review Committee recommended a five-year presidential term, arguing that the current four-year term was too short. The committee also reported that there had been no support for a third term for a sitting president.

Chair of the Committee, Professor H. Kwasi Prempeh, said during the presentation of the final report on Monday, December 22, that "we couldn’t find a place for a third term; nobody really seemed to like it, there was really no demand for it."

Professor Prempeh further stated that the committee wanted a review of appointments to the heads of state-owned enterprises.

He also recommended reassigning some of the Attorney-General’s powers to an Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, arguing that this would allow the A-G to focus on international arbitration and major constitutional cases.

“ORAL will be done by some other body. We want to take some of the powers of the A-G and give them to an Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission,” he said.

Responding to the committee’s proposals, the Attorney-General said the government accepted the principles in principle but noted that some objections did not require constitutional amendment.