Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo (2017)

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo (born March 29, 1944 in Swalaba , Accra ) is a Ghanaian politician and President of the Republic of Ghana since January 7, 2017 . Until July 31, 2007, he was Foreign Minister and Minister for Regional Integration and Minister for The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) (Regional Integration & NEPAD) . Because of his desire to run for the presidential election of 2008, he voluntarily resigned from the ministerial post on July 31, 2007. He was next to John Atta Mills as the most promising candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the presidential election in 2008 , when the second and constitutionally last term of office of President John Agyekum Kufuor ended, but could not prevail against Atta Mills. In 2016 he won the presidential election against incumbent John Dramani Mahama ( NDC ).

education

Akufo-Addo was educated at Lancing College in Sussex , England and later went to the University of Ghana at Legon, Accra, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Economics in 1967 (B. Sc. Econs 1967).

Career

In July 1971 Akufo-Addo was admitted to the English bar in Inner Temple in London, followed by admission to the Ghanaian Bar in 1975.

In the law firm Coudert Frères (also Coudert Brothers ) in France, he worked from 1971 to 1975 between 1975 and 1979, Akufo-Addo junior member of the Chamber UV Campbell before becoming a senior partner and co-founder of Prempeh & Co. operates has been.

In 1977 and 1978 he was General Secretary of the People's Movement for Freedom and Justice (PMFJ).

From 1989 to 1991 he was Vice President of the Regional Chamber of the Ghanaian Bar Association in the Greater Accra Region (Greater Accra Regional Branch of Ghana Bar Association) , followed by the presidency of this Regional Chamber of Lawyers in 1991.

Between 1991 and 1996 Akufo-Addo was a member of the General Legal Council ( Legal Council of the State of Ghana) and at the same time a member of the General Council of the Ghanaian Bar Association .

He was the founder and from 1992 to 2000 the first chairman of the Ghana Committee on Human and People's Rights in Ghana , at the same time he was a member of the National Council and the National Board of the New Patriotic Party (NPP ).

Also between 1996 and 2000, Akufo-Addo was a member of the Ghanaian parliament for the Abuakwa constituency and a board member of the NPP's committee on internal affairs, legal and constitutional issues, and several other committees.

After the 2001 elections, from which the NPP emerged as the winner, Akufo-Addo was Ghana's Justice Minister under President John Agyekum Kufuor until 2003 and also Attorney General , i.e. the highest adviser to the President on questions of law and the constitution.

Between April 2003 and July 2007, he held the post of Foreign Minister, but voluntarily resigned from the post in order to apply for the presidency within the NPP. His successor in office was the previous Deputy Minister in the Foreign Ministry Akwasi Osei Adjei .

Others

Akufo-Addo, like his father, is the editor of the respected Ghanaian daily newspaper The Statesman .

family

Akufo-Addo is married and has five daughters.

He is third married to Rebecca Akufo-Addo, daughter of the speaker in the Ghanaian parliament Jacob Hackenburg Griffiths-Randolph , with whom he has a daughter. He was previously married to Remi Akufo-Addo, a daughter of the Nigerian lawyer, politician and traditional ruler Remi Fani-Kayode . This first marriage was divorced, both spouses have two daughters together. In his second marriage, Akufo-Addo was married to Obaa Eleanor from the royal house of the Dekyere (Botase) in Asante Mampong . Akufo-Addo's second wife died in 1993 at the age of 39. They had two daughters together.

Akufo-Addo is the eldest of four children of Adeline and Edward Akufo-Addo , the former Chief Justice and President of the Second Republic of Ghana. Edward Akufo-Addo was married to Nana Yeboakua Ofori-Atta, a sister or half-sister of William Ofori-Atta , a famous Ghanaian independence advocate and Minister of Ghana. She comes from the royal family (Omanhene) of Akyem Abuakwa .

See also

• List of Ghanaian politicians
• Government of Kufuor

Web links

Commons : Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official government website ( Memento of May 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Akufo-Addo becomes Ghana's president . Tagesschau.de, December 9, 2016.
2. ↑ Ghanaweb, family
3. ↑ Ghanaweb, family