John Mahama names Professor Naana Opoku-Agyemang as running mate for 2020 elections
Former president and flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama has picked Professor Naana Opoku-Agyemang as his running mate for the December 7th, 2020 general elections.
This was announced today Monday, July 6th, 2020 after a meeting of NDC’s National Executive Committee (NEC) at the headquarters at Adabraka in Accra.
Mr. John Mahama after consulting the founder of NDC, Jerry John Rawlings, council of elders of NDC, finally decided to settle on Professor Naana Opoku-Agyemang.
Other names that strongly came up for selection were former finance minister, Dr Kwabena Duffour; former CEO of GNPNC, Alex Mould; Dr. Zenator Rawlings, among others.
Mr. Mahama wrote in his facebook post:
“The National Executive Committee of our great party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) this afternoon, unanimously, endorsed my nomination of Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang as my Running Mate for the December 2020 election.
“Naana Jane is God-fearing, a distinguished scholar, a conscientious public servant and a role model.”
Prof. Opoku-Agyemang is a veteran educationist and became the first female Vice Chancellor of a public university of Ghana when she was appointed to head University of Cape Coast (UCC) in 2008.
Before then, she served at various levels of the university’s hierarchy.
When Mahama won the 2012 elections, Prof. Opoku-Agyemang was appointed to head the Ministry of Education and she held the position until the party lost power in 2016.
She has also served as Ghana’s representative to UNESCO’s Executive Board, a position she was elected to in 2009.
The Ghana Women of Excellence Award has been conferred on the professor in recognition of her contribution to the development and promotion of quality education in Ghana.
She is the incumbent Board Chair of the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE), an organization she has been a member of since 2014.
Prof. Opoku-Agyemang obtained secondary education at Wesley Girls SHS in the Central Region.
She proceeded to the University of Dakar, Senegal where she earned a Diploma in French Studies or Diplôme Supérieure d’Etudes Françaises.
She got a B. A. (Hons) with a Diploma in Education from the University of Cape Coast in 1977.
She proceeded to Canada where she gained her Masters and PhD from York University in Toronto in 1980 and 1986 respectively.
Source: George Awiadem Maclean | BieGyaNation.Com
