People's National Party (Ghana)
The People's National Party ( PNP ) was a political party in Ghana .
Foundation and orientation
After the end of the military dictatorship under Ignatius Kutu Acheampong , the forbidden party landscape was revived through the establishment of new parties in a democratization process. The PNP was founded in 1979 as part of this process and stood in the political tradition of the left-wing Nkrumarists, who see themselves as the political heirs of Ghana's first President Kwame Nkrumah .
influence
The PNP took part in the elections to the National Assembly (National Assembley) on June 18, 1979 and achieved the majority of votes cast with 71 out of 140 seats, making it the strongest parliamentary group. In the direct elections for the presidency, Hilla Limann ran for the PNP . Limann obtained a simple majority of the votes in the first ballot with a percentage of 38.3 percent of the vote. In the runoff election on July 9, 1979, the PNP candidate Limann stood against Victor Owusu , the candidate of the Popular Front Party . Here Limann clearly won with 62 percent of the vote.
This made the PNP the most important political force in the Third Republic of Ghana. The PNP's election campaign was financially supported by Imoru Egala . Egala is an uncle of the later President Limann and former Foreign Minister of Ghana under Kwame Nkrumah in the early 1960s.
The Limann government was overthrown on December 31, 1981 by a military coup by Jerry Rawlings . Rawlings issued an absolute party ban, which led to the dissolution of the PNP.