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Ghana News Agency
Wednesday, 5 January 2005
Six West African Heads of State expected for
swearing-in
Accra, Jan. 5, GNA - Six West African heads of state
are expected in Accra on Friday to participate in the
swearing-in of President John Agyekum Kufuor for a
second tenure of office.
In an interview on telephone with the Ghana News
Agency (GNA) on Wednesday, Mr Kwabena Agyei Agyepong,
Press Secretary to the President, said among the Heads
of State is the Chairman of the African Union (AU)
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo.
He said others expected were President Mathieu Kerekou
of Benin, President Gnassingbe Eyadema of Togo,
President Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso, President
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah of Sierra Leone and President
Amadou Toumani Toure of Mali.
Mr Agyepong, who is also the Presidential Spokesman,
said also expected was former Nigerian President
Ibrahim Babangida, Mr Charles Gyude Bryant, Chairman
of the Interim Government in Liberia and about five
State Governors from Nigeria.
President Kufuor during the swearing-in would have his
name printed in Ghana's history as the first President
to win elections as an opposition candidate and
receive a second four-year term mandate. He won 52.45
per cent of the votes in the December 7 election. On
January 7,2001, his first tenure in office began when
he was sworn in as the fifth President of Ghana.
Two years later on January 31 at the 26th Session of
the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
held in Dakar, Senegal, he was unanimously elected
Chairman of the sub-regional body for a one-year term
to succeed President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal. His
mandate as ECOWAS chairman was renewed for another
year to end in 2005. 05 Jan. 05
Source: GNA
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