General News of Tuesday, 10 February 2026Source: www.ghanaweb.comLegal scholar, Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare, has warned that the greatest threat to Ghana’s democracy and the Fourth Republic is not unresolved historical debates from the 1960s, but the delegate system and the entrenched ‘cocoa season’ politics that accompany it. Decision on Baba Jamal's reinstatement rests with President Mahama – Kwakye OfosuKwaku Azar outlined three major consequences of the delegate system. Despite these concerns, Kwaku Azar stressed that even small reforms and public condemnations of inducement politics matter. Kwaku Azar cautioned against mistaking ritual for democracy, arguing that Ghana’s democratic survival depends on institutions that reward persuasion over patronage and participation over proximity. “If the Fourth Republic is to endure,” he said, we must confront the quiet systems that undermine political pluralism from within.

Source: GhanaWeb February 10, 2026 10:06 UTC