Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is a Ghanaian politician who has served as the president of Ghana since 2017. He previously served as Attorney General from 2001 to 2003 and as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2003 to 2007 under the Kufuor-led administration.Akufo-Addo first ran for president in 2008 and again in 2012, both times as the candidate of the New Patriotic Party . He lost on both occasions to National Democratic Congress' candidates: John Evans Atta Mills in 2008 and John Dramani Mahama in 2012. After the 2012 general elections, he refused to concede and proceeded to court to challenge the electoral results, but the Supreme Court of Ghana affirmed Mahama's victory.He was chosen as the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party for a third time for the 2016 general elections, and this time he defeated incumbent Mahama in the first round , which marked the first time in a Ghanaian presidential election that an opposition candidate won a majority outright in the first round. It was also the first time that an opposition candidate had unseated an incumbent president. He again secured an outright majority in the first round of the 2020 general elections , defeating Mahama for a second time.Akufo-Addo's Government initially drew broad popularity from the Ghanaian public; promoting a nationalistic 'Ghana beyond aid' agenda. The latter part of his tenure has however been mired by the worst financial crises in a generation, with inflation reaching up to 40%. His Government has attributed this to the Russo-Ukrainian War and the COVID-19 pandemic, however neutral observers point to mismanagement of public funds. Press freedom has also significantly deteriorated under his tenure with Ghana dropping from having the freest media environment in Africa in 2018 to 13th in the 2022 global press freedom ranking by Reporters without Borders . His government has been largely described as nationalistic, nepotistic and populist.
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“Stop dey use COVID-19 vaccination as immigration control against Africans.”
Nana Akufo-Addo (2021) cited in: " Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo to UN - 'Stop dey use Covid-19 vaccination as immigration control against Africans' https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-58661993" in BBC News, 23 September 2021.
