President Nana Akufo-Addo will be sworn in for a second term at the Parliament House in Accra, Ghana tomorrow. The event will include a number of local and foreign dignitaries and follows the opposition National Democratic Party’s (NDC) legal challenge of the results.
The Vice President-Elect, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, will also be sworn in tomorrow with President-Elect in the ceremony expected to be attended by 13 African Heads of State, including the President of Senegal, Macky Sall, President of Liberia, George Weah and the President of Cote d’Ivoire, Alassane Ouattara, who have confirmed that they would be in attendance at the swearing-in ceremony.
The Head of the Inauguration Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Mrs. Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey said that other countries, including Nigeria, Gambia, India and France would be represented by their Foreign Ministers at the ceremony.
Botchwey told a news conference on Tuesday in Accra that other Heads of State, who have confirmed their attendance included; the President of Burkina Faso, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré; the Head of state of Mali, Acting President Bah Ndaw; the President of Chad, Marshal Idriss Déby; the President of Angola, João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenç; the President of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo; the President of Sierra Leone, Julius Maada Bio; the President of Guinea Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embaló; the President of Guinea, Alpha Condé; the President of Togo, Faure Gnassingbé and the President of Niger, Mahamadou Issoufou.
According to the investiture programme, the Seventh Parliament of Ghana will be dissolved at midnight today, Wednesday, January 6, 2021 in line with the provisions in the Presidential Transition Act, 2012 (Act 845) and the 1992 Constitution