Ghana's government has accepted a recommendation to lower the minimum age for presidential eligibility from 40 years to 35 years, diverging slightly from what a constitutional review body had originally proposed. President John Mahama's government accepts CRC's recommendations to reduce the presidential eligibility age limit from 40 to 35 years. Source: FacebookGhana's presidential age limit revisedAccording to a report by Citinewsroom, the Constitutional Review Committee had recommended reducing the eligibility threshold from the current constitutional requirement of 40 years down to 30 years. The government agreed with the principle behind the proposal but introduced a modification, settling on 35 years as the new minimum age. The age limit adjustment is among the proposed changes that have now received official backing from the executive.