President Akufo Addo assures Ghanians to work for an extensive national consenus to be reached on the ramifications of Article 55(3)

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has assured that he will continue to work for an extensive, national consensus to be reached on the ramifications of Article 55(3) of the Constitution, which currently bars political parties from involvement in district assembly elections and local government.

According to President Akufo-Addo, one primary goal of the 1992 Constitution is to decentralise the structure of governance in Ghana, so that government would be brought closer to the people, with one fundamental barrier to its realisation, being the repeal of article 55(3).

Addressing the nation on Thursday, 28th April 2022, the day commemorating the 30th anniversary of the holding of the Referendum, which approved the 1992 Constitution, the President stated that the attempt he made in 2019 to repeal article 55(3) provision, and allow for the participation of political parties in local government, was aborted because of the lack of a broad national consensus, when the opposition NDC signaled its inability to back the repeal.

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