Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Attorney General and Minister for Justice; a barrister and MP for Abuakwa in the Eastern Region...
He is also likely to name his rival for the New Patriotic Party leadership Nana Akufo-Addo as his Minister of Justice and Attorney General...
At the end of October the Weekend Statesman (owned by Nana Akufo-Addo an NPP MP and Legal Affairs Spokesperson) published a transcript of a tape recording which if authentic could implicate people at the highest levels of government in several unsolved crimes...
6 per cent of the vote was the NPP's failed presidential candidate in 1996 John Agyekum Kufuor; Nana Akufo-Addo won 31...
The flagbearer issue obsesses the NPP and the newspapers that support it; a clutch of candidates has already emerged ahead of the party's national congress due before the end of 1998:• John Kufour: Kumasi businessman; the NNP's dour representative in 1996; widely regarded as lacking the bite to take on either Nana Konadu or her husband; • Nana Akufo-Addo: Accra-based lawyer whose father was President in 1969-72; this might tell against him in the dynasty argument; looks the most dynamic and imaginative of the contenders; • Kofi Apraku: parliamentary finance spokesman cerebral but questions have been raised about his ability to cope with the political rough stuff; • Malik Alhassan Yakubu: MP for Yendi and a leader in the North; would have a strong case for getting on the NPP ticket to break its image as an elitist conservative alliance for the cities; • Agyare Koi Larbi: member of parliament Akropong; lawyer; leads a Young Turks group in party; argues party must concentrate on grassroots organisation...
Mensah; Kufuor's brother Kwame Addo-Kufuor; and Accra lawyers Nana Akufo-Addo and Kwamena Bartels...
Senior supporters such as former Finance Minister Joseph Henry Mensah Nana Akufo Addo Jones Ofori Atta and Kwame Safo-Adu wave the flag...
A year ago the Alliance for Change under the leadership of an intriguing coalition of leftists liberals and conservative business types including Nana Akufo Addo Akoto Ampaw Kweku Baako Kwesi Pratt Charles Wereko-Brobby and Kweku Opoku was mounting a formidable cross-party challenge to the government...
NPP supporters see this is as a swipe at Nana Akufo-Addo and Charles Wereko-Brobby whose Alliance for Change made such an impact last year...