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Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was born in Swalaba, a suburb of Accra, Ghana, in 1944, to Adeline Akufo-Addo and Edward Akufo-Addo, members of the prominent Ofori-Atta family. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] His father Edward Akufo-Addo from Akropong-Akuapem was Ghana's third Chief Justice from 1966 to 1970, chairman of the 1967–68 Constitutional Commission and ...
In November 2024, Akufo-Addo was accused of "self glorification" after he personally unveiled a statue of himself outside the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital in Sekondi-Takoradi. [63] The statue of the immediate former president of Ghana, Akufo-Addo, has been vandalized few weeks after it unveiled in November. [64] [65]
Adeline Akufo-Addo, née Nana Yeboakua Ofori-Atta (1917 – 2004), daughter of Ofori-Atta I, wife of second republic president of Ghana Edward Akufo-Addo, and mother of Nana Akufo-Addo; Jones Ofori Atta (1937– 2020), economist and politician, Deputy Minister of Finance, 1969–1972; Nana Akufo-Addo (born 1944), politician and 13th President ...
This is a listing of the ministers who are currently serving in the New Patriotic Party government of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in Ghana originally formed on 7 January 2017 following the winning of the December 2016 general election when Nana Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party became president.
She was appointed Minister of State in charge of Government Procurement in 2017, serving till 2021, [15] under Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, 5th president of the 4th Republic of Ghana. In the eighth parliament under the fourth Republic of Ghana, Akufo-Addo appointed her as the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection.
Nana Akufo-Addo received 47.74% of the vote, while NDC candidate John Mahama received 50.7% amidst accusations of electoral fraud. [12] Akufo-Addo was chosen as the NPP's candidate for a third time in the 2016 elections and defeated Mahama in the first round (winning 53.83% of the votes). [13]
The Cabinet of President Nana Akufo-Addo consists of the ministers of state appointed by Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo. The cabinet takes responsibility for making key government decisions in Ghana following the 2016 elections. The president announced his cabinet in May 2017. [1]
He contested re-election for a second term in the 2016 election, but lost to the New Patriotic Party candidate Nana Akufo-Addo. [10] This made him the first president in the history of Ghana to not have won a consecutive second term. [4] Mahama was again the NDC's candidate for president in the 2020 election, where he lost to Akufo-Addo.