Don't use Mahama's term to 'dine with the devil' on constitution review - Martin Amidu warns NDC

A erstwhile Attorney General and a founding subordinate of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Martin Amidu, has accused the NDC authorities of risking its aboriginal by appointing Professor Henry Kwasi Prempeh arsenic Chairman of the Constitutional Review Committee (CRC).

In an sentiment portion dated May 5, 2025, Martin Amidu claimed the NDC has “chosen to utilize the four-year word of President John Dramani Mahama to sup with the devil” done Prof Kwasi Prempeh’s leadership, alleging helium is pushing a covert anti-NDC agenda.

Amidu, a erstwhile Special Prosecutor, further criticised Prof Kwasi Prempeh’s relation arsenic Executive Director of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), which helium describes arsenic historically opposed to the NDC and its predecessor, the PNDC.

He warned that Prof Prempeh’s calls to betterment the Council of State, arsenic reported successful his nationalist commentaries, purpose to amend Chapter 9 of the 1992 Constitution and perchance entrenched provisions, risks a referendum that could spell “John Dramani Mahama’s waterloo” successful 2028.

While quoting immoderate of Prof Kwasi Prempeh’s nationalist statements connected the request to betterment the Council of State, Martin Amidu argued that it is simply a pretext for ideological reforms, noting the CDD boss's past soundlessness connected the Council of State’s relation portion serving nether the NPP’s Akufo-Addo administration.

“The occupation is not with the constitution oregon the Council of State. The occupation is with We the People, peculiarly the educated and enlightened governmental elite,” Amidu wrote.

Contrary to assertions by Prof Prempeh, Amidu defended the Council of State arsenic a captious advisory body, portion accusing Prof Prempeh of hypocrisy for accepting an Akufo-Addo assignment portion present criticising the council’s structure.

The erstwhile Attorney General besides cautioned the NDC by invoking proverbs similar “a leopard ne'er changes its spots” and warned that “As the 2028 elections beckon, 1 should retrieve that past whitethorn not repetition itself but it rhymes.”

Professor Henry Kwasi Prempeh, a ineligible student and Executive Director of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), was appointed by President John Dramani Mahama connected January 19, 2025, to seat the Constitutional Review Committee (CRC).

The eight-member committee, inaugurated connected January 30, 2025, was tasked with reviewing Ghana’s 1992 Constitution, identifying gaps from erstwhile reviews (2010 and 2023), engaging stakeholders, and recommending amendments to heighten antiauthoritarian governance wrong 5 months.

Professor Kwasi Prempeh, pursuing his appointment, lauded President Mahama's determination arsenic a awesome of a committedness to impartial reforms and described arsenic statesmanlike connected the portion of the president to name him, a non-NDC subordinate and vocal professional of the president's anterior administration.

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