Ghanaian president John Atta Mills died on Tuesday, according to a statement released by the country’s government to news body Reuters.
Sources reveal he died of cardiac arrest on 24 July 2012 at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra.
His death, just two days after his 68th birthday will automatically have an effect on the travelling Ghana Black Satellites’ U-20 soccer side that is expected to take on Ugandan side Hippos at Nakivubo Stadium, Kampala on Saturday in an Africa Youth
Championship qualifier.
Mills was a Fanti from Ekumfi Otuam in the Central Region of Ghana. He was born in Tarkwa on 21 July 1944, located in the Western Region of Ghana.
He was educated at Achimota School, where he completed the Advanced-Level Certificate in 1963, and the University of Ghana, Legon, where he received “Black man of the month” several times.
Mills became president on January 7 three years ago, having defeated the ruling party candidate Nana Akufo-Addo in the 2008 election. He was Vice-President from 1997 to 2001 under President Jerry Rawlings, and stood unsuccessfully in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections as the candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).