Nana Akufo-Addo: Biography of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Ghana Elections 2020 NPP presidential candidate
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Nana Akufo-Addo, Ghana current president, go find out on 7 December, 2020 whether Ghanaians still want en to remain for Jubilee House for another term.
Dis no be di first time wey Nana Akufo-Addo from New Patriotic Party [NPP] dey contest Ghana presidential, in fact dis [Ghana Elections 2020] be en fourth time to contest.
For December 2016 presidential election, Nana Akufo-Addo use more than 50% plus one vote required to beat im main rival John Dramani Mahama from National Democratic Part [NDC] wey be president dat time.
Dis dey happun afta John Dramani Mahama don bin first win am for 2012 election. In dis Ghana Elections 2020 dey seek re-ection for di first time and e go jam im old time rival John Dramani Mahama.
[But who be Nana Akufo-Addo?] BBC Pidgin don gather some interesting facts about Prez. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of Ghana.
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John Mahama
National Democratic Congress
John Dramani Mahama be Ghanaian politician, communications expert, historian den writer who dem born into politically active family on November 29, 1958.
Health
Health
- Provide free primary health care
- Encourage preventive care, health promotion and wellness
- Reduce maternal mortality by half (50 per cent)
- Provide free sanitary pads to girls wey dey school
Infrastructure
Infrastructure
- Embark on US$10 billion accelerated infrastructural plan, dubbed de 'Big Push'. This entails investing the sum over five years to achieve critical upgrade in social and economic development.
- Build new universities and hospitals in regions that have previously had none
- Deliver a minimum of 20,000 low-income houses in all 260 Metropolis, Municipalities and Districts over a four year period.
Education
Education
- Expand Free SHS programme to cover students wey dey private Senior High Schools for underserved/deprived areas
- Abolish de double-track system wey increase cost of SHS education
- Complete abandoned structures for secondary den technical education including abandoned E-Blocks which go cater for current students den expected increase in admissions
- Ginger de use of IT den provide free Wi-Fi in schools to enhance de performance of students
Economy
Economy
- Create a 3-shift economy, especially in manufacturing den other high-end services which go fit operates 24 hours non-stop
- Dem go take four years create 1 million jobs through sustainable private sector jobs
- Begin dey work on rural and urban roads wey go join community wey dey produce food wit markets
Nana Akufo-Addo
New Patriotic Party
Dem born am as William Dankwa Akufo-Addo on 29 March, 1944 wey dem raise am for Accra; he be de son of Edward Akufo-Addo den Adeline. President Nana Akufo-Addo be Ghanaian lawyer den politician.
Health
Health
- Construction of 101 standard design 100-bed hospitals
- Provide accommodation for doctors den nurses in Districts without hospitals
- Construction of Ghana Centre for Disease Control
- Construction of 2 new psychiatric hospitals and upgrade of existing ones
Infrastructure
Infrastructure
- Create National Rental Assistance Scheme wey go help provide low-interest loans for pipo wey qualify.
- Dem go build low-income housing estates over de next four years
- Complete de construction of de Western Line, and Tema to Mpakadan rail lines den start de construction of Eastern Rail Line, Aduadin to Obuasi Lines plus Ghana-Burkina Line
Education
Education
- Continue de implementation of Free SHS and Free TVET programmes.
- Continue to invest in de expansion of infrastructure for all public tertiary institutions so say dis go enhance capacity and facilities to absorb increase in student population.
- Ginger de use of IT den provide free Wi-Fi in schools to enhance de performance of students
- Expand infrastructure so say dis go increase access to professional legal education and production of lawyers for Ghana
Economy
Economy
- Beyond 2020 dem go continue to improve on de over two million public and private sector formal jobs dem create
- Public-Private Partnership to accelerate de development of road infrastructure through toll-financing
- Re-launch de metro mass transport system throughout regional capitals
Some Interesting facts about Nana Akufo-Addo
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[What be de age of President Nana Akufo Addo?]
- Born William Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on 29 March, 1944 and raised in Accra, Prez. Nana Akufo-Addo be de son of Edward and Adeline.
[Who be de father of Nana Akufo Addo?]
- En father, Edward Akufo-Addo be former chief justice and ceremonial President from 1970 to 1972.
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[Nana Akufo Addo na lawyer?]
- President Nana Akufo-Addo is a Ghanaian lawyer, diplomat and politician.
- Akufo-Addo receive im primary education for Accra, first e attend di goment Boys School and then Rowe Road School. Before e later go United Kingdom for secondary education, then come back home to Ghana and for 1964, to attend University of Ghana wia e graduate with bachelor degree in economics for 1967.
- E return back to U.K. to study law and dem call am to bar for England (Middle Temple) in 1971 and in Ghana for 1975.
- Akufo-Addo don run for office three times (2008, 2012, 2016) before e succeed on 7 December 2016.
- For 2008, e contest against John Atta Mills of NDC but lost. Also, for 2012, e contest against John Mahama and still lost, then for 20016 e contest against John Mahama and win.
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[Nana Akufo Addo as diplomat and parliamentarian]
- Akufo-Addo don receive praises for preventing violence for 2012 by not calling for mass protest or rejecting di result of di election - wey im lost by 300,000 votes to former president John Mahama. Instead, e carry di mata go court and accept defeat afta Supreme Court upheld di result.
- Dem don elect Akufo-Addo several times to parliament and e don serve as di kontri Attorney General (2001-2003) and di Minister for Foreign Affairs (2003-2007).
- Akufo-Addo serve as Chair of di Commonwealth Observer Mission for di South African elections for 2014.
- Nana Akufo-Addo later win Ghana presidential election for December 2016 afta e after obtain 53.85% of di total valid votes cast and become di kontri president for 7th January 2017.
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[Nana Akua Addo na Akufo Addo daughter?]
- Akufo-Addo dey married to Rebecca Akufo-Addo. Im wife na di daughter of Jacob Hackenburg Griffiths-Randolph, former Judge and speaker of di Parliament of Ghana during di Third Republic.
- Nana Akufo-Addo and im wife, Rebecca get five daughters - Gyankroma, Edwina, Adriana, Yeboakua and Valerie.
- Akufo-Addo don receive plenti awards and recognition wey include; Mother Theresa Memorial International Award for Social Justice, African Best President Award (2018), African Leader of the Year (2020) and odas.
Sources: University of Ghana, Encyclopaedia Britannica, West Africa brief, entrepreneursng,
