Aaron Eugene Kofi Asante Ofori-Atta was a politician

Politician

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 and also the fourth Speaker

Speaker (politics)

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 of the Parliament of Ghana

Parliament of Ghana

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Kofi Asante Ofori-Atta was a Minister for Local Government in the Convention People's Party

Convention People's Party

The Convention People's Party is a socialist political party in Ghana, based on the ideas of former President Kwame Nkrumah.The CPP was formed in 1949 by Kwame Nkrumah to campaign for the independence of the Gold Coast. It ruled Ghana from 1957 to 1966...

 (CPP) government

Nkrumah government

Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was the first Prime Minister and first President of Ghana.-Nkrumah's first independence government :Nkrumah had run governments under the supervision of the British government through Charles Arden-Clarke, the Governor-General. His first government under colonial rule started...

 of Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah was the leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast, from 1952 to 1966. Overseeing the nation's independence from British colonial rule in 1957, Nkrumah was the first President of Ghana and the first Prime Minister of Ghana...

 in the first government of Ghana

Ghana

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. He also served as the Minister for Justice in the same government.

He was later appointed Speaker of Parliament on June 10, 1965 in the First Republic of Ghana. He remained speaker until parliament was suspended by the National Liberation Council

National Liberation Council

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, formed after the coup d'état

Coup d'état

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 that ended the First Republic.

Family

Kofi Ofori-Atta is the uncle of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is a Ghanaian lawyer and politician. He was one of the founding members of the centrist New Patriotic Party in 1992, and was also the founder and first chairperson of the Ghana Committee on Human and People's Rights...

, a minister in the Fourth Republic of Ghana.