{"id":457571,"date":"2025-12-31T10:12:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T10:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2025\/12\/31\/all-smiles-as-president-mahama-visits-kufuor-and-his-family\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T10:12:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T10:12:02","slug":"all-smiles-as-president-mahama-visits-kufuor-and-his-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2025\/12\/31\/all-smiles-as-president-mahama-visits-kufuor-and-his-family\/","title":{"rendered":"All smiles as President Mahama visits Kufuor and his family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/863\/86363469.295.jpg\" alt=\"President Mahama (L) with former President Kufuor during the visit\" title=\"President Mahama (L) with former President Kufuor during the visit\" width=\"295\" height=\"210\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>President Mahama (L) with former President Kufuor during the visit<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p id=\"article-123\">President John Dramani Mahama, on December 30, 2025, visited former President John Agyekum Kufuor and his family at their home.<\/p>\n<p>Mahama, who announced the visit in a post shared on X, said the visit was to extend seasonal greetings to the former president and his family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI paid a visit to President John Kufuor today to extend to him and his family the best wishes of the season,\u201d the president wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Visuals of the visit showed the two men giggling as they exchanged pleasantries.<\/p>\n<p>One of the photos showed former President Kufuor cracking up at remarks passed by President Mahama.<\/p>\n<p>Relatives of the former president were also captured exchanging pleasantries with the current president.<\/p>\n<p>Mahama and Kufuor also posed for pictures with family members and officials during the visit.<\/p>\n<p>Among the entourage of President Mahama was Joyce Bawa Mogtari, the Special Aide to the President.<\/p>\n<p>PHOTOS: Former President Kufuor visits President Mahama following tragic helicopter crash<\/p>\n<p><b>See photos of the visit below:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/863\/86363469.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/977\/97786235.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/471\/47103137.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">I paid a visit to President John Kufuor today to extend to him and his family the best wishes of the season. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ic8LJLuYX4\">pic.twitter.com\/ic8LJLuYX4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Dramani Mahama (@JDMahama) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDMahama\/status\/2006118187289464841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 30, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>BAI<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Mahama (L) with former President Kufuor during the visit President John Dramani Mahama, on December 30, 2025, visited former President John Agyekum Kufuor and his family at their home. Mahama, who announced the visit in a post shared on X, said the visit was to extend seasonal greetings to the former president and his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":457572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>All smiles as President Mahama visits Kufuor and his family - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2025\/12\/31\/all-smiles-as-president-mahama-visits-kufuor-and-his-family\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"All smiles as President Mahama visits Kufuor and his family - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Mahama (L) with former President Kufuor during the visit President John Dramani Mahama, on December 30, 2025, visited former President John Agyekum Kufuor and his family at their home. 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