Lord Oblitey Commey is a

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administrator, entrepreneur and politician. He is a member of the

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and the current Director of Operations at the

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, the official residence and office of the

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. He has served as an executive member of Accra Hearts of Oak Sporting Club and is a former youth organizer for the New Patriotic Party.

Early life and education

Lord Commey was born in 1969 in Accra. He attended

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.He was awarded honorary

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by the New London Graduate School and an Honorary Doctorate Degree in

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by the Commonwealth University in 2017.

Working life

For several years in the early 2000s, Lord Commey served as an executive member of the Board of

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Sporting Club. He continues to take interest in football development in the country. He helped organize Rumbe@60 - the 60th Independence Football match between Accra Hearts of Oak and

Kumasi Asante Kotoko Asante Kotoko Sporting Club, simply known as Asante Kotoko, is a professional football club founded on 31 August 1935 and based in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Nicknamed the ''Porcupine Warriors'', they compete in the Ghana Premier Le ...

football club. He was a member of the Ghana@60 planning committee which was tasked with planning and holding celebratory events to mark 60 years if Ghana's independence.

Political life

Lord Commey was the National Youth Organizer of the New Patriotic Party from 1999 to 2003. Lord Commey was appointed the Operations Director for the Nana Akufo-Addo campaign prior to the 2012 Ghanaian general election. It was after his appointment that members of the opposition National Democratic Congress accused him of engaging in acts that cause confusion at political rallies through the use of thugs. He has spoken on several national issues including distancing the NPP from comments made by

Haruna Esseku Harona Esseku (8 August 1934 – 3 August 2022) was a Ghanaian politician, a minister of state in the second republic and a founding member of the New Patriotic Party. Early years and education Harona Esseku was born in Krobonshie, Senya Beraku ...

, a former party chairman. Esseku had claimed that the 1966

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that ousted the

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administration had restored

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to Ghana. Lord Commey refuted the claim and stated that the New Patriotic Party had never and will never support the idea of coup d'état whether in Ghana or elsewhere. In January 2017 he was appointed by President

Nana Akuffo-Addo Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo ( ; born 29 March 1944) is a Ghanaian politician who has served as the president of Ghana since 7 January 2017. 2020 Ghanaian general election, In 2020, he was re-elected for his second term, which will end on 6 Janua ...

as Director of Operations at the presidential palace,

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. His appointment was hailed by many New Patriotic Party members who believed that due to his constant engagement with the grassroots supporters, he would be a conduit between them and the president. Some also believed that he was being rewarded for all the work he did to ensure that the party won the 2016 Ghanaian general election. He has been forced to dunk several rumours that he had been sacked in June 2017 for being strong willed and unwilling to accept opposing views to his. He ascertained that having been in Ghanaian politics for over 25 years, he had learnt how to deal with such rumours, which in his view were meant to distract him from the working he had been appointed to do.

Personal life

Oblitey Commey is married with three daughters.

References

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