Kofi Koranteng
Kofi Koranteng (born 9 September 1966) is a Ghanaian activist and politician who used to be the chief executive officer of the Progressive Alliance Movement. He has been a key advocate for the rights of Ghanaians living abroad to be given the chance to vote and be represented in that manner through campaigning for the Representation of the Peoples’ Amendment Act (ROPAA) to be passed. In the run off to the election in December 2019, he declared his intention to stand for the 2020 Ghana elections as an independent candidate. Education. Koranteng attended Primary School in Accra at  Aggrey Memorial and continuing in Kumasi at Garrison Primary. He had his Senior High School Education from college at Adisadel College located in Cape Coast. He has a degree in Economics and Business from the New York University Career. He served as chief executive officer of the Progressive Alliance Movement, a USA based non-political advocacy group. Through that he served as a lead campaigner of the advocacy group campaigning for the passage of the Representation of the Peoples’ Amendment Act (ROPAA). The ROPAA act is an act that would allow other Ghanaians living abroad to take part in elections . Based on that the ROPAA amendment act has been considered as a necessary act of legislation that needs to be passed in the Ghanaian parliament even though it is yet to be passed. Politics. Presidential Bid. Elections 2020. In December 2019, Koranteng declared his intentions to stand the 2020 Ghana elections as an independent Candidate. He equated his reasons for taking that decision to the fact that the two major political parties, the National Democratic Congress and the New Patriotic Party have for a long period in government run Ghana like an organized crime syndicate and that it was time  to kick them out. On 19 October 2020, The Electoral Commission disqualified 5 candidates which included Kofi Koranteng on the instances of forged signatures and manufacturing of endorsees, the Electoral Commission found out that 29 signatures signed endorsing him were fake and had been forwarded to the Police Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for further investigations. The Criminal Investigation Department of the Ghana Police Service (CID) after their further investigations, confirmed that the 29 signatures were fake. hence his disqualification. The Electoral Commission issued a statement that the GHS100,000 filing fee by all 5 disqualified candidates would be refunded. He filed  a case against the Electoral Commission but on 30 November 2020 the Accra High presided over by Justice Gifty Agyei-Addo dismissed his case.