Ghana former President, John Mahama has declared his intentions to run for office once more in 2020 after staying quite on his ambition since losing the 2016 presidential elections.
Mahama, 59 lost the 2016 presidential election as an incumbent president by over 1 million votes to his rival and now president of Ghana, Nana Akufo Addo.
There were indications he would eventually bow out of politics but haven served just one term as President, he is allowed by the country’s constitution to seek a second and final term.
John Mahama would now have to first contest other aspirants within his opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), and hope to win the flagbearer candidacy to lead his party into the 2020 elections.
He wrote on Facebook on Saturday that “The zeal and determination of the average sympathizer of our great party is greater and miles ahead of what it was after the December 2016 Elections.””
“To you the teeming supporters and sympathizers calling and requesting me to declare my intentions for the future, I wish to assure you today, that as a servant-leader, I have listened to your calls and reflected,” Mahama wrote signalling his desire to seek re-election.
The former president finally wrote telling his supporters that he “will not disappoint you even as we await the publication of the party’s guidelines for selecting a new leader.”
Mahama’s opposition party the NDC is expected to announce a date for an election to confirm whether or not party supporters still want him to lead them into the 2020 elections.
He is likely to run against the current president, Nana Akufo Addo, 74 should he win the primaries.
Source: Africafeeds.com
