Mahama, Obasanjo, Kukah, Others For Jonathan’s 2025 Democracy Dialogue In Ghana

Former Ghanaian President John Mahama, Nigeria’s ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, and respective different African statesmen were expected to be the Goodluck Jonathan Foundation’s 2025 Democracy Dialogue, scheduled for September 17 successful Accra, Ghana.

In a connection connected Tuesday, Special Adviser to erstwhile President Goodluck Jonathan, Ikechukwu Eze said the dialog would besides gully information from planetary improvement experts.

According to him, different distinguished leaders expected see erstwhile Prime Minister of Burkina Faso and ex-ECOWAS Commission President, Kadré Ouédraogo; existent ECOWAS Commission President, Dr. Omar Alieu Touray; and the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Rev. Matthew Kukah.

This year’s dialogue, themed: “Why Democracies Die”, was being co-hosted by the Foundation successful collaboration with the Government of Ghana.

Eze said the lawsuit would supply an accidental to bespeak connected the progress, challenges, and aboriginal of antiauthoritarian governance successful West Africa.

Former President Obasanjo volition seat the session, portion Bishop Kukah volition present the keynote code astatine the event.

The 2025 variation marks the 4th successful the bid since the Foundation launched the inaugural successful 2021 to critically analyse the sustainability and interaction of ideology successful the sub-region.

Eze recalled that past year’s dialogue, which focused connected purposeful education, featured Prof. Olubayi Olubayi, a starring educationist and Chief Academic Officer astatine Maarifa Education successful Kenya.

In his keynote, Olubayi advocated for the constitution of merit-based, research-driven universities crossed Africa to service arsenic anchors for acquisition and drivers of technological growth.

Eze added that the 2025 dialog is expected to shed airy connected strategies to halt the diminution and erosion of antiauthoritarian norms and institutions crossed Africa.