Kehinde Fajobi
President Bola Tinubu will travel to Accra, Ghana, on Monday, January 6, to attend the inauguration of President-elect John Dramani Mahama. The ceremony is scheduled for Tuesday, January 7.
The trip follows an invitation from Mahama, who visited Tinubu in December, according to a statement released on Sunday by the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga.
The statement, titled ‘President Tinubu to Attend the Inauguration of John Mahama, President-elect of Ghana,’ highlighted the strong personal relationship between the two leaders and the enduring bilateral ties between Nigeria and Ghana.
“Mahama and President Tinubu have a longstanding personal relationship, just like Nigeria and Ghana maintain a longstanding bilateral relationship,” Onanuga stated.
Mahama, Ghana’s president from 2011 to 2017, was re-elected in December 2024. He will succeed President Nana Akufo-Addo, who served from 2017 to 2025.
As Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, Tinubu will join other African leaders at the event.
The President will be accompanied by the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Mrs Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, and other senior government officials on his second trip to Ghana.