New Patriotic Party

The New Patriotic Party was founded in 1992 in Ghana by supporters of former Prime Minister Kofi Busia Abrefa. Next to it is in the NPP in the tradition of JB Danquah, the leader of the 1947 founded United Gold Coast Convention Party ( UGGC ), who was involved as a nationalist reform movement instrumental in the emergence of the independence process.

The former President of Ghana John Agyekum Kufuor was provided by the ruling party as well as the minister of regional parliaments. In the parliamentary elections in Ghana on 7 December 2004, the New Patriotic Party won an absolute majority of 129 seats. After the elections, the candidate Kufuor resigned as president of his age and thus his second, according to the constitution, last term. As a result of the subsequent elections, the New Patriotic Party government had to give up their responsibility to the NDC.

Political orientation

The New Patriotic Party is now regarded as more liberal than the ruling party National Democratic Congress. Co-founder and former presidential candidate was the internationally renowned historian Albert Adu Boahen († 2006), as well as the banker and minister in the cabinet of President Kufuor Yaw Osafo - Maafo.

The party symbol is built like a flag which is printed from top to bottom with a red, a white and a blue horizontal stripes. The white stripe is thickened circular in the middle of the flag. Here you can see the picture of a magnificent elephant in blue color.

Known members

  • Aaron Mike Oquaye
  • Abraham Ossei Aidooh
  • Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo
  • Papa Owusu Ankomah -

Party chairman

(Chairman of the NPP)

  • In 2000: Samuel Arthur Odoi - Sykes
  • In 2005: Harona Esseku.

Secretaries General

  • In 1994: Agyenim Boateng
  • In the years 2000, 2004: Daniel Botwe ( Dan Botwe )
  • 2005: Eddie Annan ( ad interim)
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