John Bilson likita ne kuma ɗan siyasa ɗan ƙasar Ghana. A watan Mayu 1969, ya kafa Jam'iyyar All People Congress, wanda duk da wasu goyon baya daga Legon Observer ya kasa yin wani tasiri a zaɓen majalisar 1969. Ya yi takara a zaben shugaban kasa na 1979 a matsayin jagoran Jam'iyyar Third Force: a zagayen farko na jefa kuri'a a ranar 18 ga Yuni 1979 ya zo na shida cikin 'yan takara goma, da kashi 2.8% na kuri'un. A cikin 1981, Jam'iyyar Force ta Uku tana ɗaya daga cikin jam'iyyun adawa waɗanda suka yi ƙoƙarin shiga cikin Jam'iyyar All People, kodayake ba da daɗewa ba aka hana jam'iyyun siyasa bayan juyin mulkin Jerry Rawlings a ƙarshen shekara. A shekarar 1992, Bilson ya shigar da kara yana kalubalantar cancantar Rawlings ya tsaya takarar shugaban kasa, bisa dalilin cewa ba dan kasar Ghana bane. Daniel Miles McFarland, 'THIRD FORCE (TF)', Historical Dictionary of Ghana, Scarecrow Press, 1995, p. 171 'Rawlings sued over nationality ', The Independent, 9 October 1992