Obed Asamoah
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Dr. Obed Yao Asamoah (born 1936) is a politician from Ghana. Asamoah is the longest serving foreign minister and Attorney General of Ghana under Jerry Rawlings from 1981 to 1997. In 2002, Asamoah replaced Rawlings as head of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), beating former defense minister Alhaji Iddrisu by just 2 votes. In 2006, he lost his chairmanship position in the party amids violence. He later resigned from the party stating that he could not continue in a party in which his life was continually threatened. On August 28 2006, he and other politicians (most of whom also resigned from the NDC) launched a new political party, the DEMOCRATIC FREEDOM PARTY (DFP)of which he his the life Patron. Speculation that Asamoah would run for President in 2008, he has never had the interest of running for the presidency and will not seek the Presidency but instead work to win victory for his party in that year's national elections.
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- The Democratic Freedom Party
- Ghana's opposition gets new leader, BBC News, 29 April 2002
- "Obed Asamoah: I've no interest in the presidency" 25 October 2006, The New Statesman
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Dr. Isaac K. Chinebuah |
Foreign Minister 1982 – 1997 |
Succeeded by Kwamena Ahwoi |
| Preceded by G.E.K. Aikins |
Attorney General and Minister for Justice 1997 – 2001 |
Succeeded by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo |
| Party political offices | ||
| New title | Leader of Democratic Freedom Party 2006– present |
Incumbent |
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