A former Deputy General Secretary of the (NPP), Nana Obiri Boahen, has criticised former National Chairman of the party, , over his stance of having no objection if the Supreme Court interprets the constitution to allow President Mahama to run for a third term.
Blay, weighing in on the national debate over President John Dramani Mahama's eligibility to contest the 2028 general elections, welcomed the idea of a possible interpretation of the provision stipulated in the 1992 Constitution. "The law is in the bosom of the judges," Blay remarked, adding, "If it goes to the Supreme Court - which has the exclusive judicial right to interpret the constitution - and that body decides that what it means by two terms is conservatively this or that, I don't have a problem with it," he said in an interview on Oyerepa FM on Wednesday, June 11, 2025.
However, in response to Blay's remarks during an exclusive GhanaWeb interview on June 17, 2025, Obiri Boahen chided him for hiding behind semantics to praise the president's work, emphasising that while there is nothing wrong with commending the president, Blay should do so openly.
According to Boahen, the constitutional provision regarding the number of terms a president can serve is explicitly clear and does not require interpretation, emphasising that it is not ambiguous and should be easily understood by anyone.
