Hon. Kwadjo Asante | |
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Member of Parliament for Suhum (Ghana parliament constituency) | |
In office January 7, 2021 –January 7, 2025 | |
Preceded by | Frederick Opare-Ansah |
Personal details | |
Born | Oboafo Kwadjo Asante June 21,1977 [1] Akropong Akuapem,Ghana |
Nationality | Ghanaian |
Political party | New Patriotic Party |
Occupation | Businessman,politician |
Committees | Defence and Interior Committee |
Oboafo Kwadjo Asante (born June 21,1977) is a Ghanaian politician and businessman. [1] [2] [3] He was the Member of parliament for the Suhum (Ghana parliament constituency) [1] [4] between January 2021 and January 2025. [5]
Oboafo was born on June 21,1977. He hails from Akropong Akuapem in the Eastern Region of Ghana. [1]
Oboafo' has a bachelor in education degree in Science (Chemistry),a diploma in science education,a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Analytics (PGDBA) and a Master of Business Administration (Finance). [1]
Oboafo Kwadjo is the managing director of Kay and Moby Company Limited. [1] [3]
In 2020 he contested and won the NPP parliamentary primaries for Suhum (Ghana parliament constituency) in the Eastern Region of Ghana. [6] [7] [8] He won the parliamentary seat in the 2020 Ghanaian general election beating the National Democratic Congress (Ghana)'s Amanda Okyere Kwatia. [2] [9]
He serves as a member of the Defence and Interior Committee of parliament. [10] He lost the parliamentary candidacy of the NPP to Frank Asiedu during the primaries in January 2024. He subsequently pledged to run on an independent ticket in the 2024 General Elections. [11] [12]
On September 1,2024,the incumbent MP officially announced his bid to run as independent candidate in the Suhum (Ghana parliament constituency) in the Eastern Region of Ghana. [13] [14]
In January 2024,Oboafo lost the New Patriotic Party's primary elections for the Suhum Constituency with 320 votes to Frank Asiedu Bekoe,popularly known as Protozoa,who polled 496 votes. [15] [16] In September 2024,having lost his bid to represent the New Patriotic Party,he officially announced his intention to run in the 2024 Ghanaian general election as an independent candidate. [17] [18] [19]
In October 2024,his decision to go independent was speculated in the media to have been rescinded by a section of the media after a picture of him and the New Patriotic Party leader in parliament,Alexander Afenyo-Markin went viral. However,he clarified that he will still contest as an independent candidate. [20]