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President Atta Mills took over as Ghana’s president in January 2009.
He narrowly won the vote in 2008 by a less than 1 percent margin against a candidate from the party of incumbent John Kufuor, widely respected for having bowed out following his two terms in office. In July last year, President Atta Mills was nominated to be the ruling National Democratic Congress party’s presidential candidate for December 2012 elections.
The primary nomination represented the first time in the country’s history that a sitting president competed for his own party’s nomination.
President Atta Mills beat his only rival in the party primary, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, the wife of ex-military leader Jerry Rawlings.
Ghana recently joined the ranks of the world’s large-scale oil producers.
A Western-educated university professor specialising in taxation, President Atta Mills served as the country’s vice-president from 1996 to 2000.
He was the leftist National Democratic Congress nominee for the presidency on three occasions: in 2000, 2004 and 2008. — BBC-Reuters-AFP.
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