Similar attempts by former presidents John Atta Mills and Akufo-Addo failed due to lack of consensus on the key amendments...

This was the position when the President John Atta-Mills of the National Democratic Congress died in July 2012 and his Vice-President Mahama then won the election in December of that year in his own right (AC Vol 53 No 16 Politicking after the mourning & Obsequies and summitry)...

The same two candidates contested elections in 2012 and 2016; in 2008 Akufo-Addo narrowly lost to John Atta Mills who had Mahama as his running mate...

The 'social democratic' NDC which adopts tax-and-spend policies – with the emphasis on 'spend' – opposed ending these measures introduced under Presidents John Atta Mills and Mahama...

Founded in 1997 by Kwabena Duffuor later Finance Minister under Presidents John Atta Mills and John Dramani Mahama uniBank had connections to the then ruling National Democratic Congress that made it too hot to touch...

Yet then the NDC candidate John Atta Mills put all his energy into smaller constituency meetings which won the day...

She is still on the international speakers' circuit and was last seen in Ghana delivering a commemorative lecture on the fourth anniversary of the death of President John Evans Atta Mills...

The date had an added significance as it marks the second anniversary of the death in office of President John Evans Atta Mills...

The last time that happened was under his predecessor John Evans Atta Mills in mid-2011 (AC Vol 42 No 10 All for the sake of the party)...

In April 2011 Ghana's late President John Evans Atta Mills prevailed on Paul Yao N'Dré the fugitive President of Côte d'Ivoire's Constitutional Court and a key Gbagbo ally to go back to Abidjan where he met Ouattara just after Gbagbo's forces had been defeated (AC Vol 52 No 8 A resolution in Abidjan)...