That ticket lost to John Evans Atta Mills on the National Democratic Congress ticket in 2008 and to John Dramani Mahama in 2012 before winning in 2016 and 2020...
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His book on former president John Atta Mills under whom he served as a deputy minister is due to be published in the coming months (AC Vol 66 No 10 Economic green shoots lift Mahama's first 100 days)...
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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)...
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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...
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Yet then the NDC candidate John Atta Mills put all his energy into smaller constituency meetings which won the day...
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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...
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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)...