Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is a legal luminary, politician, and the current president of Ghana.
He contested and lost in 2008 and 2012. Nana Addo was elected three times between 1996 and 2008 as a Member of Parliament for the Abuakwa South constituency in the Eastern region of Ghana.
He served his nation from 2001 to 2007 as Cabinet Minister, Attorney-General, and Minister for Justice, and later as Foreign Minister during the government led by President John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor.
Background on Presidential Bid
In October 1998, Nana Akufo-Addo competed for the presidential candidacy of the NPP and lost to John Agyekum Kufuor, the man who eventually won the presidential election in Ghana in December 2000 and assumed office as President of the the the Ghana in 2001.
Akufo-Addo received his primary education at the Government Boys School and Rowe Road School, both in Accra Central. He went to England to study for his O-Level and A-Level examinations. He returned to Ghana in 1962 to teach at the Accra Academy before going to the University of Ghana in 1964 to study Economics. After graduating, he went on to study law in the UK and was called to the English Bar (Middle Temple) in 1971 and the Ghana Bar in 1975.
He is married to Rebecca, daughter of Justice J.H. Griffiths-Randolph, Speaker of the Parliament of the Third Republic of Ghana. They have five children and five grandchildren.
In the 7 December 2008 presidential race, he received, in the first round, more votes than John Atta Mills, the eventual winner. In the first round, Akufo-Addo received 4,159,439 votes, representing 49.13% of the votes cast, placing him first, but not enough for the 50% needed for an outright victory. It was the best-ever performance for a first-time presidential candidate in the Fourth Republic. In the run-off, Mills received 4,521,032 votes, representing 50.23%, thus beating Akufo-Addo by the smallest margin in Ghana’s, and, indeed, in Africa’s political history. Akufo-Addo accepted the results without calling even for a recount, thereby helping to preserve the peace, freedom and stability of Ghana.
Akufo-Addo again contested in the 2012 national elections against the NDC candidate, the late Mills’ successor as President, John Mahama, and lost. That election generated considerable controversy, and was finally decided by the Supreme Court in a narrow 5/4 decision in favour of John Mahama. Akufo-Addo is credited with helping to preserve the peace of the country by the statesmanlike manner in which he accepted the adverse verdict of the Court, at a time of high tension in the country.
In March 2014, Akufo-Addo announced his decision to seek his party’s nomination for the third time ahead of the 2016 election. He secured an unprecedented, landslide victory of 94.35% of the votes in the party’s presidential primary in October 2014, in a contest with seven competitors. Akufo-Addo also served as Chair of the Commonwealth Observer Mission for the South African elections in 2014.
He was elected President of Ghana in the December 7 elections, after obtaining 53.85% of the total valid votes cast, as announced by the Electoral Commission.
The President Wife
Rebecca Naa Okaikor Akuffo- Addo was born Rebecca Naa Okaikor Griffiths-Randolph. She was born on March 12 1951 in Ghana. She is the daughter of Frances Phillipina Griffiths Randolph and Jacob Hackenburg Griffiths Randolph who was the speaker of the Parliament of Ghana.
Rebecca Education
She had her basic education at Achimota Primary School and Wesley Grammar school, She then went to Government Secretarial School where Rebecca qualified as a Secretary.
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