People's Action Party (Ghana)

The People's Action Party (PAP ) was an existing 1969-1972 political party in Ghana. It was headed by Imoru Ayarna.

Development

The party was founded in 1969 in the democratization phase of the fledgling state at the end of the military junta of the National Liberation Council. In the parliamentary elections on August 29, 1969 she was admitted as one of five parties and won 3.4 percent of the vote two of 140 seats of the National Assembly ( National Assembley ). There she was an opposition party to the ruling by absolute majority Progress Party of Prime Minister Kofi Busia Abrefa.

With the military coup against Ignatius Kutu Acheampong Busia arrived on January 13, 1972 to power. He put the constitution and passed a party ban, which the PAP had to bow by its dissolution in 1972.