Augustus Obuadum Tanoh

Augustus Obuadum Tanoh, 2017

Augustus Goosie Obuadum Tanoh (born February 7, 1956 in Ghana ) is a Ghanaian politician and party leader of the National Reform Party (NRP), for which he ran as a candidate for president in the 2000 elections, but was clearly defeated.

Tanoh holds an LLB ( Bachelor of Laws ) and an LLM ( Master of Laws ) degree from the University of Ghana in Legon, a district of Accra and from the Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago , USA .

Tanoh was a board member of Worldspace Ghana in 1996, managing director and chairman of the board of Transport and Commodity General Limited in 1993 and executive director of finance and administration of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (1989-1992). He was also a director and board member of Ecobank Ghana Limited from 1989 to 1992. At the University of Ghana he was a lecturer in law from 1982 and worked intensively on a political career.

As a member of the Constituent Assembly, he was instrumental in the 1992 constitution of Ghana. Tanoh worked as a diplomat in the service of Ghana and was a member of the Ghanaian delegation to the Security Council, the General Assembly and the Commission on the Law of the Sea of ​​the United Nations between 1986 and 1989.

Before the 2000 presidential elections , the National Reform Party (NRP) split from former President Jerry Rawlings' party , the National Democratic Congress (NDC), and put Tanoh, a trusted one of Rawlings, as a candidate for the presidential election. Tanoh was clearly defeated by the later President John Agyekum Kufuor with 78,629 votes (1.21%). In the elections to the Ghanaian parliament, Tanoh's party received around 2.25% of the vote, but no seat in parliament was won.

Tanoh is married to Karen (born March 13, 1957), who works as a banker at Ecobank International .

See also

• List of Ghanaian politicians

Web links

• Ghanaweb