Kufuor and Akufo-Addo are seen in the middle as Atta Mills is spotted in the background
The obvious faces of former presidents of Ghana in this old photo are those who actually posed for the camera, but this story will begin with the focus on the not so obvious personality’s face.
And also because he is also the only former president in the image who is late, it ties into the reason to focus this GhanaWeb article on John Evans Atta Mills first.
The old photo, which is sourced from graphic.com.gh, shows John Agyekum Kufuor (the second democratically-elected president of the fourth republic of Ghana) standing side by side with the immediate-past president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to the right of the photo.
But after a careful scrutiny of the photo, the image of an unaware John Atta Mills is seen in the background.
While it is unclear which event these former statesmen had attended, it clearly shows one thing; it was a cross-political outing as some of the other faces in the photo are from the other political divide.
As can be seen from the photo, there were other faces like the late Major Courage Quashigah of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), and Dr Kofi Konadu Apraku, of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), just as Kufuor and Akufo-Addo.
The rest of he faces in the photo are the late JH Mensah, a senior member of the NPP; and the late Gladys Asmah, a former Member of Parliament for Takoradi on the ticket of the NPP, as well as a former Minister of Fisheries.
And there is one other very striking thing about this photo; the fashion sense at the time.
See the image below:
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