Private legal practitioner, Nana Asante Bediatuo, has been appointed Executive Secretary to Ghana’s president-elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, 3News can authoritatively report.

He takes office from January 7, 2017 when Nana Akufo-Addo is inaugurated as the President of the Republic of Ghana for the next four years.

Deep throat sources told 3News Nana Bediatuo is currently understudying the outgoing Executive Secretary to President John Dramani Mahama, Ambassador Thomas Kwasi Quartey.

Our sources say Ambassador Quartey is taking Nana Bediatuo through the rudiments of the job, which will see him draft speeches for the President, receive communications to the President from other heads of States, international organisations among others.

Nana Bediatuo is a distinguished lawyer and a Managing Partner of Ampem Chambers Barristers and Solicitors.

He started his legal career as an Attorney at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, a prestigious law firm on the Wall Street in New York .