January 05, (THEWILL) – President Bola Tinubu will depart Abuja on Monday, January 6, for Accra, the capital of Ghana, to attend the inauguration of President-elect John Mahama on January 7, 2025.
Mahama, who served as the 12th president of Ghana between 2011 and 2017, was reelected in December 2024. He will succeed President Nana Akuffo-Addo (2017-2025).
A statement by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, said, “Tinubu’s trip to Accra is at the invitation of the president-elect, who had visited the Nigerian leader earlier in December”.
“Mahama and Tinubu have a longstanding personal relationship, just like Nigeria and Ghana maintain a longstanding bilateral relationship,” the statement added.
Tinubu, as Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, would join other African leaders at the ceremony.
He would be accompanied on the trip by the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, and other senior government officials.
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