Background
Addo-Kufuor was born in Kumasi, Ashanti Region.
Addo-Kufuor was born in Kumasi, Ashanti Region.
He subsequently attended University College Hospital Medical School in London, graduating with a degree in medicine from the University of Cambridge in 1970.
Between June 2008 and 2009, he was Minister for Interior. He is an alumnus of Achimota School. Addo-Kufuor obtained his post-graduate degree from Middlesex Medical School Hospital in 1975.
Addo-Kufuor resigned as Defense Minister in July 2007 so that he could seek the presidential nomination of the New Patriotic Party for the 2008 election.
Addo-Kufuor has served as the Chairman of the Security Committee of the Nuclear Power Plant"s campaign team for the 2008 election. The NDC wanted him to resign from his campaign post prior to the approval of the nomination, but Majority Leader Abraham Ossei Aidooh assured the MPs that Addo-Kufuor would address the concerns by resigning from his campaign post after the approval of the nomination.
At the party congress in December 2007, in which the Nuclear Power Plant chose its candidate, he received only 0.96% of delegates"s votes (22 votes). Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was elected as the party"s candidate. After being nominated as Minister of the Interior, he was approved by Parliament on June 11, 2008, despite objections from the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) that his post in the Nuclear Power Plant campaign was incompatible with being Interior Minister, arguing that he would not act fairly due to partisanship.
Addo-Kufuor has held many positions both in and outside of the government, including as a part-time lecturer at the University of Ghana Medical School, Member of National Council of the New Patriotic Party as well as serving on numerous committees within parliament concerning health.