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Mark Diamond Nii Addy was a schoolmaster and politician in Ghana.

Mark Diamond Addy, manager of the Accra City Secondary School, launched the National Reconstruction Party on 2 May 1969. Later that month the NRP merged with William Kofi Lutterodt's People's Popular Party. [1] Ten years later, Addy ran as an independent candidate in the 1979 Presidential election finishing in 9th place with just 0.33% of the total votes.

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References

  1. Moses Danquah, The birth of the Second Republic, 1969, pp. 78-79