PM Hailemariam attends Nana Addo’s inauguration ceremony

Addis Ababa, January 7, 2017 (FBC) –Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has attended the inauguration ceremony of Ghana’s new president elect Nana Addo Akufo-Addo, which took place at the Black Star Square (Independence Square).

Akufo Addo, 72, sworn-in as Ghana’s 5th President of the 4th Republic, after winning the recently held Presidential elections in December, 2016.

Akufo-Addo is a legal luminary, politician and a businessman. He won the 2016 polls after trying for the third time. He contested and lost in 2008 and 2012.

He was elected three times between 1996 and 2008 as Member of Parliament for the Abuakwa South constituency in the Eastern region of Ghana.

He served his nation from 2001 to 2007 as Cabinet Minister, Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, and later as Foreign Minister during the government led by President John Kufuor.

Taking the presidential oath of office and oath of allegiance, he said “I will be faithful and true to the Republic of Ghana.”

Akufo-Addo, promised free high school education and more factories.

Heads of state from across Africa, including Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, and thousands of guests and dignitaries watched him take the oath of office.