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The Executive Director of Afrobarometer, Professor Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi, has advocated the amendment of Ghana’s 1992 Constitution to reduce the executive powers of the President, as part of efforts to address the “Winner-takes- all” syndrome.
“And we are not going to get rid of crazy partisanship and winner-takes-all, unless we do a fundamental restructuring of our politics and particularly the constitution; so that it does not concentrate power in the hands of the President and the executive branch and, therefore, the governing party”.
Prof. Gyimah-Boadi stated this at the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development’s (CDD-Ghana) Round-table on Rawlings and Democratic Development in the Fourth Republic.