John Mahama has taken the oath of office as Ghana’s new president in a ceremony attended by world leaders.
Mahama was sworn in at Black Star Square in Accra, the Ghanaian capital on Tuesday.
The new president took over from Nana Akufo-Ado who succeeded him in 2017. Before Mahama’s swearing-in, Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang was inaugurated as the country’s first female vice president.
The Chief Justice of Ghana Gertrude Torkornoo administered the oath of office at the event, CHANNELS TV reports
“Today should mark the opportunity to reset our country,” the 66-year-old new president, wearing the West African country’s national dress, told a jubilant crowd decked in the green, red, black, and white hues of his National Democratic Congress (NDC) party.
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