Today’s In History,On 28 August,1970, Edward Akuffo-Addo named president of the Second Republic

Today’s in History,on 28 August,1970, Edward Akufo-Addo, became the ceremonial president of the second Republic of Ghana

Akufo-Addo was born at Dodowa on June 26, 1906. . He had his basic education at Presbyterian Primary and Middle Schools at Akropong in the Eastern Region of Gha. In 1929, he admitted Achimota College, from where he won a scholarship to St Peter’s College, Oxford, where he offer Mathematics, Politics and Philosophy.He graduated with honors in philosophy and politics in 1933. In the year 1940 he was called into the Bar at Middle Temple Bar, UK and returned home to practice legal practice a year later.

Due to the political awareness that arouse after the World War ll, He became a founding member of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) the first political party to be formed in the Gold Coast and was one of the “Big Six” imprisoned after 1948 Riot in Accra. From 1949–1950, he was a member of the Gold Coast Legislative Council and the Coussey Constitutional Commission.

From 1966–1970, he was appointed Chief Justice by the National Liberation Council (NLC) regime as well as Chairman of the Constitutional Commission (Commission that drafted the 1969 Second Republican Constitution

He was also head of the NLC Political Commission during this same time period. He was a ceremonial President of the 2nd Republic and Ghana’s 4th Head of State until the coup d’état on 13 January 1972. He had no executive powers, as the Prime Minister, Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia was the head of government. On 17 July 1979, Akufo-Addo died of natural causes. His son, Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo is Ghana’s current president