Nigeria’s president to attend inauguration of Ghana’s President-elect Mahama

Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu will on Monday depart Lagos for Accra, Ghana, to attend the inauguration of John Dramani Mahama, President-elect, on Tuesday.

Mahama served as the 12th president of Ghana between 2011 and 2017. He was reelected in December 2024 and will succeed President Nana Akuffo-Addo, who was president between 2017 and 2025.

President Tinubu’s trip to Accra is at the invitation of the president-elect, who had visited the Nigerian leader earlier in December.

Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy in a statement in Abuja on Sunday said President Tinubu, as Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, would join other African leaders at the ceremony.

The President is expected to be accompanied on the trip by the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Mrs Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, and other senior government officials.