Nana Akufo-Addo

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo ( born March 29, 1944 in Swalaba, Accra ) is a Ghanaian lawyer and politician (NPP ). He was until July 31, 2007 Ghanaian Foreign Minister and Minister for Regional Integration and Minister of The New Partnership and Africa's Development (NEPAD ) (Regional Integration & NEPAD). Because of his desire to run as a party candidate in the presidential election of 2008, he joined 31 July 2007 voluntarily returned from ministerial posts. He was next to John Atta Mills as the most promising candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP ) in the presidential elections in 2008, as the second and constitutionally final term of President John Agyekum Kufuor ended, but could not prevail against Atta Mills himself.

Training

Akufo - Addo was at Lancing College in Sussex, England formed and went to the University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, where he graduated with a Bachelor in Economics in 1967 (B. Sc. Econs 1967) later.

Career

In July 1971 Akufo - Addo was admitted to the English Bar in the Inner Temple in London, in 1975, the recording was followed in the Ghana Bar Association ( Ghanaian Bar ).

In the law firm of Coudert Frères (also Coudert Brothers) in France, he worked 1971-1975, between 1975 and 1979 was Akufo - Addo junior member of the Chamber UV Campbell, before he worked as a senior partner and co-founder of Prempeh & Co. been.

In the years 1977 and 1978 he was Secretary General of the People's Movement for Freedom and Justice ( PMFJ ).

From 1989 to 1991 he was Vice- President of the Regional Chamber of Ghana Bar Association in the Greater Accra Region (Greater Accra Regional Branch of Ghana Bar Association) in 1991 was followed by the presidency of the Regional Chamber of Legal Advisers.

Between 1991 and 1996, Akufo - Addo member of the General Legal Council Rights Council of the Ghanaian state and at the same time member of the General Council of the Ghana Bar Association (General Council of Ghana Bar Association).

He was the founder and from 1992 to 2000 the first chairman of the Committee on Human and Peoples' Rights in Ghana (Ghana Committee on Human and People 's Rights ), at the same time he was a member of the National Council and the National Executive Board of the New Patriotic Party (NPP ).

Also between 1996 and 2000 was Akufo - Addo member of the Ghanaian Parliament for Abuakwa constituency and board member of the Committee of the NPP of Internal Affairs, questions of law and the Constitution, and several other committees.

After the 2001 elections, from which the NPP as a victor emerged, Akufo - Addo was under President John Agyekum Kufuor to 2003, Minister of Justice of Ghana and is also Attorney General, ie the highest adviser to the President on matters of law and the Constitution.

Between April 2003 and July 2007, he held the post of foreign minister, a position he voluntarily self- candidacy within the NPP presidential candidate down. His successor was the former Deputy Minister Akwasi Osei Adjei at the Foreign Ministry.

Others

Akufo - Addo is, as already his father, editor of the respected Ghanaian newspaper The Statesman.

Family

Akufo - Addo is already married his third wife and the father of five daughters.

He is married to his third marriage with Rebecca Akufo Addo, daughter of the speaker in the Ghanaian Parliament Jacob Hack Castle Griffiths - Randolph, with whom he has a daughter. Previously, he was married to his first marriage with Remi Akufo Addo, a subsidiary of the Nigerian lawyers, politician and traditional ruler Remi Fani Kayode. This first marriage ended in divorce, both spouses have two daughters together. His second wife Akufo - Addo was married to Eleanor Obaa from the royal house of Dekyere ( Botase ) in Asante Mampong. At the age of 39, the second wife of Akufo - Addo died in 1993. Both had two daughters together.

Akufo - Addo himself is the eldest of four children of Adeline Akufo - Addo and Edward, the former Chief Justice ( Chief Justice ) and President of the Second Republic of Ghana. Edward Akufo - Addo was married to Nana Ofori - Atta Yeboakua, a sister or half-sister of William Ofori Atta, a famous Ghanaian independence advocate and Minister of Ghana. It comes from the royal family ( Omanhene ) of Akyem Abuakwa.

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