John Agyekum Kufuor

Appointed as leader of government business and later senior minister by President John Kufuor JH played a key role in shaping policy in the earlier years of the administration...

Having worked on trade issues for the African Union and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa Kyerematen knows the brief and also held the Trade portfolio under the last NPP government led by John Kufuor...

President John Kufuor's New Patriotic Party government which made much of its success in doubling the size of Ghana's economy between 2000 and 2008 also had its critics on pre-election contracts...

As the first results came through on the previous evening a trio of former presidents – Ghana's John Kufuor (who headed the election mission of the Economic Community of West African States) Malawi's Bakili Muluzi (heading the Commonwealth Observer Mission) and Liberia's Amos Sawyer – visited Jonathan to encourage him accept the results and slap down any attempt by his more rampant followers to derail the electoral process...

GNPC officials say the courts are likely also to hear claims of conflicts of interest over the choice of foreign lawyers after the NPP government dropped GNPC's legal team – and of an unhealthy relationship between Société Générale and the government of ex-President John Kufuor...

The core group around Akufo-Addo led by Akyem people from his native Eastern Region has since 2008 marginalised many founding members seen as loyal to ex-President John Agyekum Kufuor and his Ashanti business friends...

• Julius Ansah from Ashanti Region was appointed to the Court by former President John Kufuor (NPP) and his loyalties are said to lie that way...

Others in the NPP such as banker Kwame Pianim Charles Wereko-Brobbey (a former head of the state-owned Volta River Authority power utility) and former President John Agyekum Kufuor argue that the party’s decision to boycott parliamentary proceedings such as the vetting of Mahama’s ministerial appointees is self-defeating...

In 2004 the situation was reversed: the NDC then in opposition challenged the Electoral Commission’s announcement that the NPP’s President John Kufuor had won a second term...

Britain’s Vodafone which negotiated the purchase of its remarkably cheap licence with former President John Agyekum Kufuor is seen as close to the NPP...