By Newsmata
Nigeria’s President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu is one of the World leaders expected to witness the second inauguration of Ghana’s President-elect, John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday January 7, 2025. Tinubu, as Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Authority of Heads of State and Government, will join other African leaders at the event.
According to a statement on Sunday by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, Tinubu will depart Abuja for the event in Accra, caital of the Republic of Ghana, on Monday, January 6.
In the statement titled ‘President Tinubu to attend the inauguration of John Mahama, President-elect of Ghana’, Onanuga said, “Tinubu’s trip to Accra is at the invitation of the president-elect, who had visited the Nigerian leader earlier in December”.
Newsmata reports that Mahama, who served as the 12th president of Ghana between July 24, 2012, and January 7, 2017, was re-elected in December 2024. He had earlier served as vice president from January 2009 to July 2012 and took over as President July 24, 2012, following the death of President John Atta Mills. In a historic comeback, Mahama, will be taking over from President Nana Akuffo-Addo (2017-2025).
According to Onanuga, “Mahama and President Tinubu have a longstanding personal relationship, just like Nigeria and Ghana maintain a longstanding bilateral relationship”.