Alhaji Aliu Mahama was second-in-command to President John Agyekum Kufuor, from 07 January 2001 to 07 January 2009.<\/p>\n
The former vice-president was reported to have taken ill a few weeks ago and until his rumoured death, was receiving medical attention for heart-related illness, at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, in Accra.<\/p>\n
Former Vice-President Alhaji Aliu Mahama, contested the NPP flagbearer race which witnessed a hooping 17 candidates in December 2007, to lead the then ruling NPP, in the 2008 presidential election. He made little inroads.<\/p>\n
Until his recent reported failing health which was publicly made known by the sitting-president, John Dramani Mahama, which was robustly contested, he had been politically calm, attracting but little media attention.<\/p>\n
JusticeGhana accordingly, awaits official confirmation from the deceased’s family, the Ghanaian Government or the NPP as earlier rumours about the former vice-president’s passing, had been repeatedly, disputed.<\/p>\n
If this unfolding news were to be confirmed; then former Vice-President Alhaji Aliu Mahama, would be the second statesman, from the Ghanaian presidency, to pass away in recent months.<\/p>\n
President John Evans Atta Mills passed away on 24th July 2012, while receiving medical attention, at the 37 Military Hospital.<\/p>\n
JusticeGhana shall surely update its readers about the passing of the former vice-president as the news unfolds.<\/p>\n
Stay tuned for updates…<\/p>\n
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[THE FORMER VICE-PRESIDENT IS NOW CONFIRMED DEAD]<\/strong><\/p>\n Former Vice-President Alhaji Aliu Mahama survived a widow- Hajia Ramatu, a 92-year-old mother and children.<\/p>\n The Office of the Ghanaian Government has indicated a state burial in accordance with Islamic practices for the late vice-president on Friday, 17 November 2012.<\/p>\n Plans are still underway in relation to where the body of the former second gentleman of the land, shall be finally lay to rest.<\/p>\n JusticeGhana Group mourns with Ghana and the entire family of the former vice-president.<\/p>\n [Un]confirmed report reaching JusticeGhana indicates that former Vice-President Alhaji Aliu Mahama [pictured right], has passed away today, 16 November 2012, aged 66.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsbriefs-newsbriefs","category-obituaries","cat-33-id","cat-37-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/justiceghana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/justiceghana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/justiceghana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/justiceghana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/justiceghana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/justiceghana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1348,"href":"http:\/\/justiceghana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions\/1348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/justiceghana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/justiceghana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/justiceghana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/justiceghana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}JusticeGhana<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"