Former First Lady of Ghana, Rebecca Akufo-Addo has shared a short but heart warming message to her husband on the event of his birthday.
Former President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo marks his 81st birthday today, Saturday, March 3, 2025.
The former President has received a number of messages from his loved ones and party faithful, with his birthday at the time of this story trending number 1 with the hashtag, #AddoDeeAt81 on X.
Celebrating her lovely husband, Rebecca Akufo-Addo wrote on her X page, “Wishing you the happiest of birthdays, my love. I hope you have a day as amazing as yourself.”
The public romance of Akufo-Addo and his wife has not been lost on Ghanaians. The two have displayed intense love and affection towards each other publicly. During Akufo-Addo’s tenure as president of Ghana, the phrase “my lovely Rebecca” became synomymous to every speech he made in which he mentioned his first lady.
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is a Ghanaian politician who served as the 13th president of Ghana from 2017 to 2025.
He previously served as Attorney General from 2001 to 2003 and as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2003 to 2007 under the administration of then-president John Kufuor.
Akufo-Addo first ran for president in the year 2008 and again in 2012, both times as the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). He lost on both occasions to National Democratic Congress’ candidates: John Evans Atta Mills in 2008 and John Dramani Mahama in 2012.
After the 2012 general elections, he refused to concede and proceeded to court to challenge the electoral results, but the Supreme Court of Ghana affirmed Mahama’s victory.
He was chosen as the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party for a third time for the 2016 general elections, and this time he defeated incumbent John Dramani Mahama in the first round (winning with 53.85% of the votes), which marked the first time in a Ghanaian presidential election that an opposition candidate won a majority outright in the first round.
It was also the first time that an opposition candidate had unseated an incumbent president. He again secured an outright majority in the first round of the 2020 general elections (winning with 51.59% of the vote), defeating Mahama for a second time
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Wishing you the happiest of birthdays, my love.
I hope you have a day as amazing as yourself. @NAkufoAddo ❤️❤️❤️ pic.twitter.com/J5v5RcSxiZ— Rebecca Akufo-Addo (@RAkufoAddo) March 29, 2025
