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The president of the Republic of Ghana is the elected head of state and head of government of Ghana, as well as commander-in-chief of the Ghana Armed Forces. The current president of Ghana is John Mahama, who won the 2024 presidential election against then vice president, Mahamudu Bawumia, by a margin of 14.94%. He was sworn into office on 7 ...
In October 1998, Akufo-Addo competed for the a presidential run of the NPP [26] and lost to John Kufuor, who subsequently won the December 2000 presidential election and assumed office as President of Ghana in January 2001. Akufo-Addo was the chief campaigner for Kufuor in the 2000 election.
John Dramani Mahama (/ m ə ˈ h ɑː m ə / ⓘ; born 29 November 1958) [1] is a Ghanaian politician who has been the 14th president of Ghana since 7 January 2025. [2] [3] He previously served as the 12th president from 2012 to 2017 and as the fifth vice president from 2009 to 2012. [4]
The second presidency of John Mahama began on 7 January 2025 when he was inaugurated as the 14th president of Ghana. [1] [2] Mahama was elected for a full second term on 7 December 2024 by obtaining 56.55% of the valid votes in the 2024 Ghanaian general election, defeating then-incumbent vice president Mahamudu Bawumia.
First President of the Republic of Ghana Nkrumah and the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th presidents of the 4th Republic of Ghana Rawlings; Kufuor; Mills and Mahama. Ghana is a unitary presidential constitutional democracy with a parliamentary multi-party system that is dominated by two parties—the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New ...
Under the Constitution of 1960, the first constitution of the Republic of Ghana, the president replaced the monarch as executive head of state. [9] The president was elected by Parliament for a 5-year term. In the event of a vacancy three members of the Cabinet served jointly as acting president.
The presidency of Nana Akufo-Addo began on 7 January 2017 and ended on 7 January 2025. Following the 2016 Ghanaian general elections, Nana Akufo-Addo the flag-bearer of the New Patriotic Party, succeeded John Mahama as the 13th president of Ghana and the fifth of the Fourth Republic after winning by a landslide.
Arrival of the president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, and president of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito, to the first conference of the Non-Aligned Movement, Belgrade, 1961. After substantial Africanization of the civil service in 1952–60, the number of expatriates rose again from 1960 to 1965.