Nana Akufo-Addo is to move sworn inwards equally Ghana's novel president afterward beating incumbent leader John Mahama inwards final month's election.
Some eleven African heads of province as well as to a greater extent than than 6,000 people are expected inwards the ceremony inwards the capital, Accra, where safety volition move tight.
Mr Akufo-Addo, a 72-year-old sometime human rights lawyer, promised gratis high schoolhouse instruction as well as to a greater extent than factories.
But critics convey questioned the viability of his ambitions.
Mr Akufo-Addo, from the New Patriotic Party, was elected on his tertiary effort to accomplish the post, afterward a crusade dominated past times the country's faltering economy.
Mr Mahama as well as sometime leaders John Rawlings as well as John Kufuor are expected to attend the ceremony inwards the capital's Independence Square.
Major roads inwards as well as to a greater extent than or less the expanse convey been cordoned off.
Nana Akufo-Addo
- 72 years old
- Human rights lawyer
- Campaigned for a supply to multi-party republic nether military machine rule
- A sometime judge as well as unusual government minister inwards the NPP regime from 2001 to 2007, he is running for president for a tertiary time
- His original hope was to cook a manufacturing flora inwards each of Ghana's to a greater extent than than 200 districts
Mr Akufo-Addo has vowed to revive the country's economy, maxim that "there are brighter days ahead".
An economical slump nether Mr Mahama led to an IMF bail-out.
The electrical flow president has defended his record, maxim his regime had been upwards against "strong headwinds" that caused increase to slow, world sector debt to ascent as well as the country's currency, the cedi, to fall.
Republic of Ghana has been a multi-party republic since the goal of military machine dominion inwards 1992 as well as the transition is seen equally reinforcing its reputation for the peaceful transfer of mightiness betwixt administrations.
