Tinubu heads Ghana for President-elect Mahama’s inauguration

President Bola Tinubu 

Tinubu heads Ghana for President-elect Mahama’s inauguration

President Bola Tinubu will depart Abuja on Monday, January 6, for Accra, the capital of the Republic of Ghana, to attend the inauguration of President-elect John Dramani Mahama on January 7.

“Tinubu’s trip to Accra is at the invitation of the president-elect, who had visited the Nigerian leader earlier in December,” Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, revealed this in a statement he signed Sunday.

The statement is titled ‘President Tinubu to attend the inauguration of John Mahama, President-elect of Ghana.’

Mahama, who served as the 12th president of Ghana between 2011 and 2017, was reelected in December 2024.

He succeeds President Nana Akuffo-Addo (2017-2025).

Tinubu heads Ghana for President-elect Mahama’s inauguration.

According to Onanuga, “Mahama and President Tinubu have a longstanding personal relationship, just like Nigeria and Ghana maintain a longstanding bilateral relationship.”

Tinubu, as Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, will join other African leaders at the ceremony.

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Mrs Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu and other senior government officials will accompany the President on his second trip to the Ghana.