Mark Diamond Nii Addy was a schoolmaster and politician in Ghana

Ghana

Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...

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Mark Diamond Addy, manager of the Accra

Accra

Accra is the capital and largest city of Ghana, with an urban population of 1,658,937 according to the 2000 census. Accra is also the capital of the Greater Accra Region and of the Accra Metropolitan District, with which it is coterminous...

 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. Ten years later, Addy ran as an independent candidate in the 1979 Presidential election

Ghanaian presidential election, 1979

Presidential elections were held in Ghana on 18 June 1979 , with a second round on 9 July 1979. The result was a victory for Hilla Limann of the People's National Party, who won 62.0% of the votes in the second round....

finishing in 9th place with just 0.33% of the total votes.