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General News on Thursday, November 29, 2018
Source: primenewsghana.com
2018-11-29
Former President John Dramani Mahama
Former President John Dramani Mahama was 60 years old today, November 29, 2018.
John Mahama was vice president of the Mills administration, but he was named president when Mill died in 2012.
He went to the presidency on the NDC ticket and won the award in 2012, but it lasted only one term, the NPP and President Akufo-Addo having taken power in 2016.
He is currently aiming to become the flag bearer of the NDC before the general elections of 2020.
About Mahama
John Dramani Mahama (born November 29, 1958) is a Ghanaian politician who has been President of Ghana from July 24, 2012 to January 7, 2017.
He previously served as Vice President of Ghana from 2009 to 2012 and took office as President on July 24, 2012 following the death of his predecessor, John Atta Mills. Mahama is an expert in communication, historian and writer. He was a Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2009 and Minister of Communications from 1998 to 2001. He is a member of the National Democratic Congress.
Mahama is the first vice president to have ascended the presidency following the death of his predecessor, John Atta Mills, and the first Ghanaian state leader to be born after the independence of Ghana. He was elected for a full term as president in the December 2012 elections.
He challenged his reelection for a second term in the 2016 election, but was defeated in the first round by New Patriotic Party candidate Nana Akufo-Addo, whom he had defeated four years ago. This makes him the first president in the history of Ghana not to have won a second term.
Carrier start
After completing her undergraduate studies, Mahama taught history at the high school level for a few years.
Upon returning to Ghana after studying in Moscow, he worked as an Information, Culture and Research Officer at the Japanese Embbady in Accra between 1991 and 1995.
From there, he joined the Ghana Country Office in Ghana, an anti-poverty nongovernmental organization (NGO), where he held the positions of Head of International Relations, Sponsorship Communications and Grants between 1995 and 1996. In 1993, he participated in a vocational training course. Public relations staff abroad, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in Tokyo.
He also participated in a management development course organized by Plan International (RESA) in Nairobi, Kenya.
As a Member of Parliament
Mahama was first elected to the Ghana Parliament in the 1996 elections to represent the constituency of Bole / Bamboi for a four-year term. In April 1997, Mahama was appointed Deputy Minister of Communications.
He was promoted to Minister of Communications in November 1998, a position he held until January 2001, when the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) transferred power to the government. of the new patriotic party.
In 2000, Mahama was re-elected for another four-year term as MP for the Bole / Bamboi constituency. He was re-elected in 2004 for a third term. From 2001 to 2004, Mahama was Parliamentary Critic for Minority Communications. In 2002, he was appointed Director of Communications for NDC.
The same year, he was a member of the team of international observers selected to oversee the parliamentary elections in Zimbabwe. As a Member of Parliament, he has been a member of the Rules Committee, as well as the Transportation, Industry, Energy, Communications, Science and Technology Committee.
As Minister and Vice President
Mahama was Deputy Minister of Communications from April 1997 to November 1998. During his tenure, he was also President of the National Communications Authority, where he played a key role in stabilizing Ghana's telecommunications sector. was deregulated in 1997.
As a Minister, he was a founding member of the Ghana AIDS Commission, a member of the Implementation Committee of the 2000 National Population Census and Vice-Chair of the Advertising Committee charged with the reintroduction of the Value Added Tax. (VAT).
Continuing to develop interest and commitment in international affairs, Mahama became a member of the Pan-African Parliament in 2003, chairing the West African Caucus until 2011.
He has also been a member of the ad hoc committee on cooperation between European and Pan-African parliaments. In 2005, he was also appointed Foreign Affairs Critic for the minority. He is a member of the UNDP Advisory Committee on Conflict Resolution in Ghana.
On January 7, 2009, Mahama became Vice President of Ghana. He has also served as President of the National Economic Management Team, the Ghana Armed Forces Council, the Committee on Decentralization and Implementation, and the Ghana Police Council.
As president
In accordance with Ghana's constitution, Mahama became president of Ghana on July 24, 2012 after the death of his predecessor, John Atta Mills.
In July 2012, he became the first Ghanaian president to hold political office at all levels (Ghanaian and Pan-African MP, Deputy Minister, Minister, Vice President and President). During his swearing, he declared in Parliament:
It is the saddest day in the history of our country. Tears have flooded our country and we are deeply saddened and helpless. I am personally devastated. I lost a father, a friend, a mentor and a high-level fellow. Ghana is united in pain right now for our missing president.
Following his accession to the presidency, Mahama entered political history by becoming the first Ghanaian state leader to be born after Ghana's declaration of independence, on March 6, 1957.
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) held a special congress of national delegates on August 30, 2012, and approved the candidacy of President John Dramani Mahama as President in 2012. President Mahama, the party's only candidate, received 2,767 votes, 99.5% of the votes cast to designate the party.
Mahama said his administration was deeply committed to continuing the program for a better Ghana launched under President Mills.
Mahama won the general elections of December 2012 with 50.70% of the total valid votes cast and a 3% margin of victory over his closest rival, Nana Akufo-Addo, of the main opposition party, the new patriotic party, which collected 47.74% of the votes. It was barely enough to win the presidency without the need for a second round.
Mahama also won a majority of votes cast in eight of Ghana's ten administrative regions. Thirteen African heads of state, a prime minister, two vice presidents and 18 government delegations from around the world attended its inaugural ceremony at Black Star Square in Accra on January 7, 2013, when Mahama was sworn in to start her own four-year term. term.
After his inauguration, the New Patriotic Party, led by presidential candidate Nana Akufo-Addo, presidential candidate 2012, Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia and party president Jacob Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey, challenged the results of the elections. elections, alleging irregularities, abuses, fraudulent practices, omissions and violations.
The petition was heard by nine judges of the Supreme Court of Ghana. After eight months of hearing, on August 29, 2013, the court dismissed the motion by a majority.
Mahama is one of Africa's most followed leaders on social networking sites, Twitter and Facebook.
In May 2013, he declared that all of West Africa was threatened by Islamist militancy.
On March 30, 2014, he was elected President of ECOWAS.
On June 26, 2014, he was elected Chair of the African High Level Trade Committee (HATC) of the African Union (AU).
On January 21, 2016, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Mahama co-chaired the Sustainable Development Advocates Group of 17 people who badist the UN Secretary General in the campaign. in favor of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). ) that world leaders unanimously adopted in September 2015.
With the mandate to support the Secretary-General in his efforts to create momentum and commitment to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, advocates of the Sustainable Development Goals have striven to promote the universal agenda. sustainable development, raise awareness of the integrated nature of sustainable development goals, and foster the engagement of new stakeholders in the implementation of these goals.
On December 9, 2016, Mahama was defeated by the main opposition leader, Nana Akufo-Addo, to whom he had conceded defeat earlier in the day. Mahama polled 44.4% of the votes cast against 53.5% for Akufo-Addo.
In December 2016, he was part of the ECOWAS mediation team tasked with resolving the post-election political stalemate in The Gambia between incumbent President Yahya Jammeh and declared winner Adam Barrow.
Personal life and interests Mahama is married to Lordina Mahama (born Effah, March 6, 1963). Mahama has five children named Shafik, Shahid, Sharaf, Jesse and Farida. Christian, born and raised Presbyterian, he is now a member of the Assemblies of God of Ghana by marriage.
His family is multi-religious, composed of Christians and Muslims.
A strong advocate of sustainability, he is keenly interested in environmental issues, particularly the problem of single-use plastic waste pollution in Africa, a problem he is committed to solving at during his tenure as Vice President.
During her career, Mahama has written for several newspapers and other local and international publications. As a parliamentarian, Mahama wrote Mahama's Maher, a semi-regular column in a Ghanaian newspaper. His essays have also been published in the Daily Graphic, The Ebony, The Huffington Post, The Louisville Courier-Journal, The New York Times, and The Root. In addition, he was one of the guest speakers at the TEDx Conference Great Pacific Garbage Patch Conference in Santa Monica.
Mahama is also pbadionate about Afrobeat music, especially that of Fela Kuti.
In addition to her pbadion for reading, Mahama also has a pbadionate interest in innovation, especially the use of technology in agriculture as a farmer.
In particular, he is interested in finding the most effective ways to improve agricultural productivity and encourages more young people to consider agriculture as a viable activity and not a subsistence activity.
This is reflected in his pbadion for seeing the Accelerated Savannah Development Authority (SADA) create new opportunities for people living in the savannah regions of the country, which includes the three northern regions and the Volta region.
Even at official missions abroad, Mahama enjoys opportunities to visit farms and keep abad of current trends and developments. It is also interested in the possibilities of simplification and simplification of tasks with the use of information and communication technologies and considers that the ICT sector is one of the sectors that can be play an important role in economic transformation and job creation.
He is pbadionate about motorcycles and has about 5.
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