Today, Monday, November 29, 2022, is 64 years old for former president John Dramani Mahama.
The son of a well-to-do teacher, rice farmer, and politician, the 2020 candidate of the largest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), was born on this day in 1958 in Damango, the regional capital of the West Gonja District.
His father, Emmanuel Adama Mahama, served as the first Regional Minister of the Northern Region and the first Member of Parliament for West Gonja.
E.A. Mahama worked for Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president.
From 24 July 2012 to 7 January 2017, Mr. Mahama presided over Ghana.
Prior to becoming president on July 24, 2012, after the passing of his superior, President John Evans Atta Mills, he held the position of vice president from January 2009 to July 2012.
After the elections in December 2012, he was chosen to take on the role of President full-time.
In the general elections of 2016, Mr. Mahama, who was defeated in 2012, lost his campaign for reelection to the New Patriotic Party and Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
Due of this, he became the first one-term president in the fourth republic’s history of Ghana.
Additionally, he lost the 2020 election.
Mr. Mahama is a historian, writer, and communication guru.
Due of this, he became the first one-term president in the fourth republic’s history of Ghana.
Additionally, he lost the 2020 election. Mr. Mahama is a historian, writer, and communication guru.
From 1997 to 2009, he served as a member of parliament, and from 1998 to 2001, he served as minister of communication.