Constitutional Review Committee Chairman urges Supreme Court to dismiss third-term lawsuits

These suits argue that a president could be eligible for a third term under certain conditions. Professor Prempeh contends that the lawsuits do not present a genuine constitutional dispute because no action has challenged the established interpretation of Article 662 of the 1992 Constitution. He asserts that the Supreme Court's role is to interpret the Constitution only when an actual dispute exists, not to address hypothetical legal questions.

The writ, filed by Ghanaian news editor and lawyer Kenneth Kwabena Agyei Kuranchie, seeks a definitive interpretation of the country's presidential term-limit provisions, specifically Article 662. It asks the court to determine if the two-term limit applies only to consecutive terms and if a substantial break between elected terms resets eligibility. The plaintiff seeks declarations that the two-term limit takes effect only after two consecutive four-year terms, that a substantial break of one four-year electoral cycle resets eligibility, and that the prohibition in Article 662 is not engaged until a person has served two consecutive elected terms.