Edward Nasigrie Mahama (born 15 April 1945) is a Ghanaian medical doctor and politician.
Born in the village of Sumniboma (northern Ghana) in 1945, Mahama attended Nalerigu Primary and Middle School from 1953 to 1959.
Mahama went back to Nalerigu as a medical doctor in September 1973 and four years later, he left Ghana to become an Obstetrics and Gynecology Physician in Chicago, Illinois.
In 1990, Mahama was appointed a lecturer at the University of Ghana Medical School and consultant at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra.
[1][2] Edward Mahama lost the position of presidential candidate of the PNC to Hassan Ayariga in the run up to the 2012 general election.