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John Mahama
President of Ghana (2012–2017; since 2025)
John Dramani Mahama (; born 29 November 1958) is a Ghanaian politician who has been the 14th president of Ghana since 7 January 2025. A member of the National Democratic Congress, he previously served as the 12th president from 2012 to 2017 and as the fifth vice president from 2009 to 2012. Mahama took office as president for the first time on 24 July 2012, following the death of his predecessor, John Atta Mills.
A member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mahama was Member of Parliament for Bole Bamboi from 1997 to 2009 and served as Deputy Minister for Communication between 1997 and 1998 before becoming the substantive Minister for Communications in 1998. Mahama is the first vice president to assume the presidency following the death of his predecessor, and is the first head of state of Ghana to have been born after Ghana's independence in 1957.
He was elected in the December 2012 election to serve a full-term as president. He contested re-election for a second term in the 2016 election, but lost to the New Patriotic Party candidate Nana Akufo-Addo. This made him the first president in the history of Ghana to not have won a consecutive second term. Mahama was again the NDC's candidate for president in the 2020 election, where he lost to Akufo-Addo.
He was re-elected president in the 2024 election, defeating the then incumbent vice president Mahamudu Bawumia, making him the first president in Ghanaian history to be democratically elected to a non-consecutive second term.
Early years
A member of the Gonja ethnic group in the Savanna Region of Ghana, Mahama hails from Bole in the Savanna Region. Mahama was born on 29 November 1958 in Damongo, an area in present-day West Gonja District of the Northern Region. His father,
Born on March 29, 1944, in Swalaba, Accra, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was raised in Accra, Ghana’s capital. His father’s residence in Accra was effectively the headquarters of the country’s first political party, the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), after its formation in 1947. Three of the Big Six (the founding fathers of Ghana) were Akufo-Addo’s blood relatives: J.B. Danquah (grand uncle), William Ofori Atta (uncle) and his father, Edward Akufo-Addo, who became the third Chief Justice and later ceremonial President of the Republic from 1970-72.
Akufo-Addo received his primary education at the Government Boys School and Rowe Road School, both in Accra Central. He went to England to study for his O-Level and A-Level examinations. He returned to Ghana in 1962 to teach at the Accra Academy before going to the University of Ghana in 1964 to study Economics. After graduating, he went on to study law in the UK and was called to the English Bar (Middle Temple) in 1971 and the Ghana Bar in 1975.
He is married to Rebecca, daughter of Justice J.H. Griffiths-Randolph, Speaker of the Parliament of the Third Republic of Ghana. They have five children and five grandchildren.
In October 1998, Akufo-Addo competed for the presidential candidacy of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and lost to John Kufuor, who won the December 2000 presidential election. He later became the first Attorney General and Minister for Justice of the Kufuor era. Akufo-Addo resigned from the Kufuor government in July 2007 to contest for his party’s presidential nomination in the 2008 elections. In the runoff, Mills beat Akufo-Addo by the smallest margin in Ghanaian political history. Akufo-Addo accepted the results without calling for a recount, thereby helping to preserve the peace, freedom, and stability of Ghana. Subsequently, Akufo-Addo contested the 2012 national elections against the NDC candidate John Mahama and lost. That election generated c President of Ghana from 2017 to 2025 William Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo (a-KUUF-oh ah-DOH; born 29 March 1944) is a Ghanaian politician who served as the 13th president of Ghana from 2017 to 2025. He previously served as Attorney General from 2001 to 2003 and as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2003 to 2007 under the administration of then-president John Kufuor. Akufo-Addo first ran for president in the year 2008 and again in 2012, both times as the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). He lost on both occasions to National Democratic Congress' candidates: John Evans Atta Mills in 2008 and John Dramani Mahama in 2012. After the 2012 general elections, he refused to concede and proceeded to court to challenge the electoral results, but the Supreme Court of Ghana affirmed Mahama's victory. He was chosen as the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party for a third time for the 2016 general elections, and this time he defeated incumbent John Dramani Mahama in the first round (winning with 53.85% of the votes), which marked the first time in a Ghanaian presidential election that an opposition candidate won a majority outright in the first round. It was also the first time that an opposition candidate had unseated an incumbent president. He again secured an outright majority in the first round of the 2020 general elections (winning with 51.59% of the vote), defeating Mahama for a second time. Akufo-Addo's government initially drew broad popularity from the Ghanaian public, promoting a nationalistic 'Ghana beyond aid' agenda. The latter part of his tenure, however, was marked by the worst Ghanaian financial crises in a generation, with inflation reaching up to 40% in both 2022 and 2023. His government attributed this to the COVID- Wia dis foto come from, JOHN MACDOUGALL Nana Akufo-Addo, Ghana current president, go find out on 7 December, 2020 whether Ghanaians still want en to remain for Jubilee House for another term. Dis no be di first time wey Nana Akufo-Addo from New Patriotic Party [NPP] dey contest Ghana presidential, in fact dis [Ghana Elections 2020] be en fourth time to contest. For December 2016 presidential election, Nana Akufo-Addo use more than 50% plus one vote required to beat im main rival John Dramani Mahama from National Democratic Part [NDC] wey be president dat time. Dis dey happun afta John Dramani Mahama don bin first win am for 2012 election. In dis Ghana Elections 2020 dey seek re-ection for di first time and e go jam im old time rival John Dramani Mahama. [But who be Nana Akufo-Addo?] BBC Pidgin don gather some interesting facts about Prez. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of Ghana. Tap candidate's image to see their bio and manifesto. National Democratic Congress John Dramani Mahama be Ghanaian politician, communications expert, historian den writer who dem born into politically active family on November 29, 1958. New Patriotic Party Dem born am as William Dankwa Akufo-Addo on 29 March, 1944 wey dem raise am for Accra; he be de son of Edward Akufo-Addo den Adeline. President Nana Akufo-Addo be Ghanaian lawyer den politician. Wia dis foto come from, Facebook/Nana Akufo-Addo Wia dis foto come from, Getty ImagesNana Akufo-Addo
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