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| Affiliation | New Patriotic |
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2012-08-01 |
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| Name | Nana Akufo-Addo |
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Kyebi, Eastern , Ghana |
| Email | None |
| Website | [Link] |
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March 29, 1944
(80 years)
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| Contributor | RBH |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is a Ghanaian politician and diplomat.
Akufo-Addo was one of the founding members of the NPP in 1992, and was also the founder and first chairperson of the Ghana Committee on Human and People's Rights.
Under President John Kufuor, Akufo-Addo was the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice from 2001 to 2003; he was then Minister for Foreign Affairs from April 2003 to July 2007, when, in accordance with his political party's rules, he resigned, along with seven others, to seek the presidential nomination of his party.
On December 23, 2007, Akufo-Addo was elected as the NPP's 2008 presidential candidate at a party congress, receiving 47.96% of valid votes (1,096 votes). Although he fell short of the required 50%, the second-place candidate, John Alan Kyeremanten, conceded defeat and backed Akufo-Addo. In the 2008 presidential election, Akufo-Addo received the highest number of votes in the first round of voting, but since he failed to obtain a majority, the election went into a second round runoff between him and National Democratic Congress candidate John Atta-Mills. In the runoff, he lost the election to Atta-Mills by a 50.23%–49.77% vote.
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