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Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was born in Swalaba, a suburb of Accra, Ghana, in 1944, to Adeline Akufo-Addo and Edward Akufo-Addo, members of the prominent Ofori-Atta family. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] His father Edward Akufo-Addo from Akropong-Akuapem was Ghana's third Chief Justice from 1966 to 1970, chairman of the 1967–68 Constitutional Commission and ...
The presidency of Nana Akufo-Addo began on 7 January 2017 and ended on 7 January 2025. Following the 2016 Ghanaian general elections , Nana Akufo-Addo the flag-bearer of the New Patriotic Party , succeeded John Mahama as the 13th president of Ghana and the fifth of the Fourth Republic after winning by a landslide.
He contested re-election for a second term in the 2016 election, but lost to the New Patriotic Party candidate Nana Akufo-Addo. [10] This made him the first president in the history of Ghana to not have won a consecutive second term. [4] Mahama was again the NDC's candidate for president in the 2020 election, where he lost to Akufo-Addo.
The president of the Republic of Ghana is the elected head of state and head of government of Ghana, as well as commander-in-chief of the Ghana Armed Forces.The current president of Ghana is John Mahama, who won the 2024 presidential election against then vice president, Mahamudu Bawumia, by a margin of 14.94%.
Mahamudu Bawumia was running mate to the New Patriotic Party candidate in the 2008 elections, Nana Akufo-Addo. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] [ 26 ] The NPP increased its share of the vote compared to 2004 in all the three Northern Regions, in both the first and second round.
Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo has broken ground on the construction of a 300,000 barrel-per-day oil refinery that the government hopes will turn the West African country into the region's ...
On 4 January 2017, President John Dramani Mahama took then President-elect Nana Akufo-Addo on a tour of the Jubilee house. [11] On 26 July 2017, Mrs. Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, president of Malta and her spouse, Edgar Preca visited the Jubilee House. [12] On 6 April 2018, Mr. George M. Weah, President of Liberia, visited the Jubilee house.
Rebecca Naa Okaikor Akufo-Addo (née Griffiths-Randolph; born 12 March 1951) [1] is a Ghanaian public figure who served as the First Lady of Ghana from 2017 to 2025. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She is the wife of former President Nana Akufo-Addo .