The outgoing President of ECOWAS Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara who served two terms announced Saturday that Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama has been elected the new head of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) of the 15-member regional bloc as the 44th ordinary summit rounded off. Speaking shortly after President Ouattara handed over to him, President Mahama said his three priority areas would be peace and security, economic integration and development of West Africa as well as
development and expansion of infrastructure.
He thanked his colleagues for electing him Chairman, saying he was ''truly honored, deeply humbled and filled with a great sense of responsibility''. ''On behalf of the government and people of Ghana, I accept this important responsibility to serve the people of our region,'' he
said, praising President Ouattara for his ''excellent leadership'' in the last
two years.
“I am very happy to tell you that yesterday (Friday) my peers… decided to name as head of ECOWAS, my brother and friend John Dramani Mahama, the president of the Republic of Ghana,” said Ivory Coast’s leader. The bloc’s new leader, 55-year-old Mahama, was vice president in Ghana when president John Atta Mills died in July 2012. He was elected the leader of a country seen as beacon of democracy in West Africa in December that year.
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