Nana Akufo-Addo

About Nana Akufo-Addo

After serving the Abuakwa and Akim Abuakwa South constituencies in the Ghanaian Parliament, this New Patriotic Party politician became Attorney General of Ghana and, later, Ghanaian Minister of Foreign Affairs. On January 7, 2017, he was elected President of Ghana.

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is a Ghanaian politician who is currently President of the Republic of Ghana. He has been in office since January 7, 2017. Akufo-Addo was former Minister of Justice from 2001 to 2003 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2003 to 2007 under the government led by Kufuor. He is currently serving a second term as President of the Economic Community of West African Nations. Akufo-Addo first ran for president in 2008 and again in 2012, both times as candidates for the New Patriotic Party. He lost both times to Democratic Congressional candidates: John Evans Atta Mills in 2008 and John Dramani Mahama in 2012. After the 2012 general election, he refused to give in and went to court to oppose the results of the elections, but the Supreme Court of Ghana upheld the victory of John Dramani Mahama.

Residence	Jubilee House
Vice President	Mahamudu Bawumia
Children	5 daughters
Born	William Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, March 29, 1944, Accra, Gold Coast
Spouse(s)	Rebecca Griffiths-Randolph
Parents	Edward Akufo-Addo, Adeline Akufo-Addo
Political party	New Patriotic Party
Preceded by	John Mahama
Education	Lancing College, New College, Oxford, University of Ghana, Inns of Court School of Law

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Trivia

He ran for President of Ghana in both 2008 and 2012, losing to John Atta Mills and John Mahama, respectively.

Nana Akufo-Addo before fame

He earned an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Ghana after studying at Lancing College in Sussex, England. Later in life, he worked as a lawyer in France, England, and Ghana.

Achievement of Nana Akufo-Addo

In both 2008 and 2012, he stood for President of Ghana, but lost to John Atta Mills and John Mahama, respectively.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Nana Akufo-Addo family life

He had five children with Rebecca Griffiths-Randolph, the daughter of a politician.

Associations of Nana Akufo-Addo

He coordinated a series of protests against then-President Jerry Rawlings' Value Added Tax policies in the mid-1990s.

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