Former second lady of Ghana, Hajia Ramatu Aliu Mahama(neè Egala) has passed on.
Hajia She died at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital on Thursday afternoon.
Hajia Ramatu Aliu Mahama was 70.
Hajia Ramatu Aliu Mahama was the wife of the late Vice President of Ghana, Alhaji Aliu Mahama.
“It is with deep sorrow, I announce the passing of my beloved mom, the former Second Lady of the Republic, Hajia Ramatu Aliu Mahama(neè Egala). She passed on peaceful in Accra at the Korlebu Teaching Hospital earlier this afternoon,” Farouk Aliu Mahama, MP for Yendi constituency said in a statement.
“The family has lost a great pillar. Burial and funeral rites would be conducted in accordance with Islamic traditions. Further information will be provided in due course,” he added.
Hajia Ramatu Mahama was the daughter of the late Imoro Egala, a Minister for Trade and Industry and first black Chairman of COCOBOD, in the first Republic and a long-standing political stalwart in Ghana through to the third Republic; doubling as a founder of the PNP now PNC.
The late Hajia Ramatu Mahama left behind four children, namely; Salma Mahama, Farouk Mahama, MP for Yendi, Fayad Mahama, and Halim Mahama.
The late Hajia Ramatu Mahama, 70, would have turned 71 on October 15, 2022.