The processes for the transfer of political power to President-elect John Dramani Mahama and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will take-off today with the joint transition team set to be inaugurated.
The President-elect in his victory speech in Accra on Monday revealed that he and President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo have agreed to have both teams put together today. "We agreed on an early inauguration of a joint transition team as early as Wednesday the 11th of December," he announced.
The team is expected to have top echelons of the NDC and specified ministers and other senior government officials as stipulated by the Presidential (Transition) Act, 2012 (Act 845).
The Act stipulates in section one that within 24 hours after the declaration of the results of the presidential election, both parties in the transition would appoint equal number of persons to constitute the transition team for the transfer of power.
