President Mahama: We Want Nigeria To Do Well So They'll Stop Coming To Ghana

 Is he being disrespectful or is this an uncomfortable truth?

If Nigeria does well, Ghana does well. I mean, when you have cousins, 250 million of them, you want them to do well, so that one million of them don't come drifting towards a small country like Ghana. So every day I wake up, I pray for Nigeria.

I say, God, let Nigeria get their act together. And so I remember when a lot of the people in Ghana migrated from Nigeria. They find their roots from the Yoruba kingdoms and all that. And so the Ghana people and all, you know, migrated from Nigeria.

This is the first time an African president would talk about Nigeria in a less than admirable tone. But would you blame the president of Ghana for speaking so frankly? Bola Tinubu opened the floodgates with that less than careless remark on Kenya. True leaders don’t do that! pic.twitter.com/XGk3rVYDoX

— NEFERTITI (@firstladyship) April 14, 2026