The reality of joining the league of former Heads of State appears to have dawned on Ghana’s president John Mahama on Friday, reiterating that expiration of his tenure ends at midnight.
“I just remembered a joke I told yesterday, I was at the KorleBu Hospital to launch a new equipment that they bought for the Cardiothoracic department…after we finished commissioning the piece of equipment, of course the nurses and other health personnel came around and were asking to take photographs with me, some of them took selfies, [and] all kinds of photos and just when I was walking away I reminded them that the photographs will expire on Saturday, on the 7th January.
“Yea, so the title will expire at midnight tonight actually,” Mahama said on Friday at a ceremony to inaugurate an office complex for the West African Examination Council on his last day in office.
Mahama will on Saturday hand over the baton leadership to president-elect, Nana Akufo-Addo after losing last year’s December 7 presidential polls.
On Thursday, 5 January 2016, he delivered his last of the State of the Nation address, where he described his tenure as the Commander-in-Chief of Ghana’s armed forces as “a worthwhile journey.”
