Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo

Samuel Ofosu Ampofo is a member of the 3rd parliament of the fourth republic of Ghana and a politician of the National Democratic Congress. His political career spans an appreciable number of years. In his formative political life, he was appointed District Chief Executive by His Excellency the late former President, Jerry John Rawlings, from 1994 to 1996. He then participated in the 1996 general elections as a parliamentary candidate for the Fanteakwa North constituency of the Eastern region of Ghana, which he won with a total of 21,284 of the total valid votes casted that year. Subsequently, he retained his seat in the 2000 general elections with a total of 15,487 making 49.70% of the total valid votes casted. Ampofo later on stood for the party National Organizer position, and was appointed Ghana Minister for Local Government and Rural Development by late President Mills during a cabinet reshuffle in January 2011. Prior to this appointment he had been the Eastern Regional Minister since the start of the Mills NDC government in 2009. He was later appointed Board Chairman of Ghana ports and Harbour Authority in 2013 under the regime of former president John Dramani Mahama. In November 2018, Ampofo was elected the National Chairman of the NDC at the 9th delegate congress held at Fantasy Dome at the Trade Fair Centre in Accra.