John Dramani Mahama has taken the oath of allegiance and the presidential oath to officially assume his role as Ghana’s president.
His inauguration made him Ghana’s sixth president under the Fourth Republic, which began in 1992.
He was sworn in by the Chief Justice of Ghana Gertrude Torkornoo on Tuesday, January 7, 2025, at the Black Star Square in Accra.
His swearing-in followed that of the first Ghanaian female Vice President, Prof. Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, who also took the oath of office and the vice presidential oath.
Mr. John Mahama was also the fourth President of the Fourth Republic of Ghana, having previously occupied the high office of the President between January 7, 2013, and January 6, 2017.
Born 66 years ago to Mr. E. A. Mahama and Madam Abiba Nnaba in Damongo, in the now Savannah Region of Ghana, Mr. John Mahama has served at all political levels.
He was a Member of Parliament for the Bole-Bamboi Constituency, Deputy Minister for Communications, Minister for Communications, Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, and President of the Republic of Ghana.
Mr. Mahama considers the combination of history, communications, and social psychology—courses he studied for his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees—to have profoundly shaped his views, thoughts, and understanding of the human and contributed significantly to his development as a person.
Under President Mahama’s first administration, Ghana witnessed some infrastructure development across all sectors of the economy, including education, health, ports and harbours, aviation, rail, oil and gas, ICT, and many more.
Beyond investments in socio-economic infrastructure, President Mahama is passionate about investing in people.
John Mahama further demonstrated his commitment to women’s empowerment by appointing several women to prominent roles in his administration.
In 2020, he nominated Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang as his vice-presidential candidate, marking it a first for a major political party in Ghana.
He decided to re-nominate Jane Opoku-Agyemang as his vice presidential candidate in the 2024 general election.
President Mahama is a former Chairperson of the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) Commission. A strong proponent of intra-African trade, he is a former Chairperson of the African Union’s High-Level African Trade Committee.
He played an instrumental role in laying the foundation for the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), whose secretariat is now in Ghana.
President Mahama was also the first co-chair of the United Nations Advocacy Group on the Sustainable Development Goals and is the current chair of the TANA Forum, a high-level forum on security in Africa headquartered in Ethiopia.
