DRAMATIC RISE OF ‘AHOBRASIHENE’ PREZ MAHAMA
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Long before the late President John Atta Mills discovered and groomed Ahobrasihene John Dramani Mahama in 2008 for the high office of the president of Ghana, his late father had already predicted so some ten years ago.
Ahobrasihene President John Mahama’s father, the late Mr. E.A Mahama, a former Member of Parliament for Bole and a Minister in the Nkrumah regime had foretold how John would rise to become president of Ghana one day after his demise.
According to Mr. Ibrahim Mahama, a junior brother of President John Mahama, “way-back when we were young, John is always glued to his books. Whenever you see him without a book, then it is either he is going to have his meal, bath or going to bed… He is always learning, learning and leaning”.
Mr. Ibrahim, who is also CEO of Engineers and Planners further disclosed that, even though they (siblings) were aware of their senior brothers’ crave for knowledge and honours in life, it was not until in 2001, when their father, Mr. E.A Mahama told them what the future of John Mahama was to be.
“I quite remember very well in 2001, prior to his death, when our late dad told us that John will one day rise to become president of Ghana, it therefore didn’t come to us as a surprise…., because we saw it coming,” Mr. Ibrahim related to The Al-Hajj recently.
Like the late Mr. E. A Mahama, ex-president John Evans Atta Mills since 2008 when he nominated John Mahama to be his running-mate for that year’s presidential elections against all odds, has also consistently told close acquaintances, family members and cabinet ministers that John Mahama would become the president after him.
Yours truly was one such beneficiary of the late president’s privileged prophecy, which was often repeated any time the opportunity presented itself in a one-on-one discussion.
Indeed, in one such discourse, former president Mills told of how in order to forestall any power-play amongst his ministers over who to succeed him; he made it abundantly clear at a cabinet meeting that John was the one he has settled upon to come after him.
Again, immediately after his re-election as the 2012 flag bearer of the NDC at the Sunyani Congress, the late president Mills, at the party’s National Executive Council meeting at Madina, hurriedly put forward John Mahama’s name as his running-mate, which was widely endorsed.
John Dramani Mahama, born 29th November 1958 became president following the death of his predecessor, President John Atta Mills who passed-on to glory on the 24 July 2012. He was before then, Vice President of Ghana.
A communications expert, historian, and writer, John Mahama was a Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2009 and Minister of Communications from 1998 to 2001.