African leaders hail Mahama for show of leadership

Ghana's President and Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) John Dramani Mahama has been praised for his strong show of leadership within the sub-region by his colleague heads of States.

African Heads of State and global leaders have both patted the ECOWAS chair on the back for his handling of the Ebola pandemic as well as other pertinent issues including the political tension in Burkina Faso.

''He is a leader who wants to succeed. He is passionate as well as polite in assuaging the pains of a labour in pain. Such a leader is raising high the flag of the sub-region to the rest of the world. He is proven that with available resources and the required technology, Africa could handle its own headache.''

According to some of them who spoke to me in Accra during the Extra-Ordinary Summit on Ebola described the Ghanaian leader as a dynamic and decisive leader who took the bull by the horn to personally and collectively find solutions to the myriad of problems facing the West African Sub-Region.

Since he assumed the chairmanship of ECOWAS, President Mahama had not sat idling, but is working around the clock to find the magic wand for the progress and development of the country.

He had to travel every now and then for the progressive cause of the sub-region by extension the African Continent.

The ECOWAS chairman early in the year paid a solidarity visit to the three Ebola stricken Nations including Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea where he sympathised and donated made in Ghana products worth millions of cedis to assuage the economic hardship being experienced by the three countries due to the Ebola epidemic.

''In fact, the president of Ghana had won the hearts and minds of the sub-region. He is determined, visionary, humble and passionate about solving problems and inspiring hope. His visit to Liberia at a time when that country had been forgotten by the rest of the world speaks volumes. He is a good and a kind leader,'' a representative from Liberia at the ECOWAS summit said.

Speaking to Nigerian security persons, they said President Mahama's show of quality and unbiased leadership had earned him respect and trust among leaders across the globe.

''Mr. Mahama's approach and posture to dealing with issues, for me must be commended, a young and agile president who respects and gives reverence to his colleagues heads of state had made his brothers and sisters within the sub-region accord him all the support to effectively steer the affairs of the region as well as his country. He is doing very well as ECOWAS chair and our leaders are all behind him.''

The reporter spoke to quite a lot of them, and the answers were all positive about the stature and discipline the Ghanaian president commands among his peers.