Tinubu to attend John Mahama’s second inauguration as Ghana’s president on Tuesday

President Bola Tinubu will attend John Mahama’s inauguration as Ghana’s president on Tuesday.

This will be Mahama’s second inauguration as president of the Gold Coast country. He previously led Ghana from 2012 to 2017.

A statement issued on Sunday by Bayo Onanuga, special adviser to the president, information and strategy, said Tinubu will depart Abuja on Monday for Accra, the Ghanaian capital, to attend Mahama’s inauguration on January 7.

Onanuga said the trip was at the invitation of the president-elect.

Shortly after his re-election in December, Mahama visited Tinubu at the State House in Abuja.

Before the visit, Tinubu congratulated Ghana’s president-elect on his victory in the general election.

Mahama won the elections after polling 56.55 percent of the vote cast to defeat Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia, candidate of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), with 41.6 percent.

Bawumia conceded defeat before the final results were announced.

At the 66th ordinary session of the Economic Community of West African Countries (ECOWAS) authority of heads of state and governments, Tinubu applauded Bawumia for his exemplary actions.

Onanuga said Tinubu, as ECOWAS chairman, will join other African leaders at the ceremony.

Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, minister of state for foreign affairs, and other senior government officials will accompany the president on the trip.