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Baffour Annor
Baffour Annor is a Ghanaian politician and a member of the Second Parliament of the Fourth Republic representing the Ahafo Ano North Constituency in the Ashanti Region of Ghana.Ghanaian Parliamentary Register (1992–1996) Early life Annor was born in Ahafo Ano in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Politics Annor was first elected into parliament on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress during the 1996 Ghanaian General Elections for the Ahafo Ano North Constituency in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. He polled 12,536 votes out of the 22,519 valid votes cast representing 45.70% over his opponents James Brown Ford Donkor of the New Patriotic Party who polled 9,628 votes representing 35.10% and Kwabena Nketia of the People's National Congress who polled 355 votes representing 1.30%. During the 2000 Ghanaian general election, he was defeated by Kwame Owusu Frimpong of the New Patriotic Party , logo = , colorcode = #132f7a , founder = , founded = 28 July 1992 , diss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jerry Rawlings
Jerry John Rawlings (22 June 194712 November 2020) was a Ghanaian military officer and politician who led the country for a brief period in 1979, and then from 1981 to 2001. He led a military junta until 1992, and then served two terms as the democratically elected President of Ghana. Rawlings came to power in Ghana as a flight lieutenant of the Ghana Air Force following a coup d'état in 1979. Prior to that, he led an unsuccessful coup attempt against the ruling military government on 15 May 1979, just five weeks before scheduled democratic elections were due to take place. After handing power over to a civilian government, he took back control of the country on 31 December 1981 as the chairman of the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC). In 1992, Rawlings resigned from the military, founded the National Democratic Congress (NDC), and became the first President of the Fourth Republic. He was re-elected in 1996 for four more years. After two terms in office, the limit ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
