Former President John Dramani Mahama has said that he is an Nkrumahist at heart and that originally he belonged to the Convention Peoples Party (CPP), the party formed by Ghana’s first president Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
“I grew up as an Nkrumahist, I am still an Nkrumahist,” Mahama said in an interview on the sidelines of the just ended Munich Security Conference over the weekend.
“My actual first political orientation was CPP. So, I joined NDC when it was formed,” he revealed to the host Wode Maya who was discussing a wide range of issues with the former president.
The former president John Mahama’s political roots date as far back to the days of Ghana’s independence when his father served in the kwame Nkrumah government.
He is known to be one of the most thorough bred politicians of the Fourth Republic who served from the local level (Assembly) to becoming a Member of Parliament for Bole Bamboi on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress(NDC).
Mahama was deputy minister and ministerial portfolios under the Rawlings government before becoming the vice president under John Mills and president when he took over .
He is expected to contest for the presidency come 2024 as he looks for a final term in office on the grounds of two straight defeats to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in 2016 and 2020.
