At the start of the Second Republic in 1969 after a brief period as Commissioner for Finance under the National Liberation Council military government he became MP for Sunyani and Minister for Finance and Economic Planning in the Progress Party government led by President Edward Akufo-Addo and Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia...
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Danquah who was Akyem like Akufo-Addo and Kofi Abrefa Busia an Ashanti prince...
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He was in Kofi Busia's Progress Party government which backed the Abdulai claim to the title in 1969...
Akufo-Addo represents a younger more activist political style and Mensah brings a strong track record as Finance Minister in Kofi Busia's 1969-72 government and impressive intellectual credentials that might intimidate some of the less experienced hands in the party...
Kufuor has also authorised the return of a house allocated to the family of first President Kwame Nkrumah confiscated by the Rawlings regime and of the property of former Prime Minister Kofi Busia confiscated by Acheampong's regime in the 1970s...
Ghanaian-Ivorian relations have rarely been so good except in Kofi Abrefa Busia's time 1967-72...
In his own Volta region he polled well over 90 per cent while in Brong-Ahafo - home of one of the NPP's spiritual leaders former Premier Kofi Abrefa Busia - the opposition won just four of the 22 seats on offer...
