President Mahama has publicly opened up on his unwillingness to enter into politics during the earlier stage of his life.
Addressing a congregation at the Cedar Mountain Chapel of Assemblies of God, East Legon, Accra on Sunday, the President explained that his reluctance stemmed from the experiences that his late father, Mr Emmanuel Adama Mahama went through in politics.
Following the overthrow of Ghana's first President, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, his father who was then a Minister under Dr Nkrumah's regime was arrested and locked up for two years.
President Mahama recalled that his father was so traumatised after what he experienced and never wanted to have anything to do with politics and so he went into business and became a very successful commercial rice farmer in the north. "And so because of the narrations that he had given about the trauma he suffered in prison and the setbacks he suffered as a result of his politics, my mind was, I will not be a politician.
