The 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has left Ghana for the United States.

The 10-day visit will also see him visiting the United Kingdom. He left Ghana on Monday, July 18, 2016.

He will return to Ghana on Friday, July 29, 2016, according to a statement from his Press Secretary Eugene Arhin.

The statement failed to disclose the former attorney general’s mission in the two countries.

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