By Anthony Apubeo, GNA
Paga (UE), June 20, GNA – The body of the late Chairman of the Council of Elders of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Clement Kubindiwo Tedam has arrived at his hometown, Paga, in the Kassena-Nankana West District of the Upper East Region.
The mortal remains of the late C.K. Tedam arrived on Wednesday at Paga and was received by Madam Paulina Patience Abayage, the Upper East Regional Minister, family members, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MDCEs) and other government officials for internment on Saturday.
Mr C. K. Tedam, 94, before his demise in April this year was the Chairman of the Council of Elders of the NPP and the last surviving member of the Northern People’s Party, the first NPP.
He played critical roles in the development of the Danquah-Dombo-Busia political tradition.
A teacher by profession, he began his political career in the pre-independence era and contested in elections for the Legislative Assembly held for the second time in the Gold Coast on 15 June 1954.
He was one of 11 independent candidates who won a seat in the 104-seater assembly dominated by the Convention People’s Party which controlled the House with 71 seats.
In the next election in 1956, C.K Tedam, a royal in Paga in the Upper East Region stood on the ticket of the Northern People’s Party and won his seat.
During the military regimes, C.K Tedam served as a Local Government Minister in the Supreme Military Council.
After Ghana returned to civilian rule in 1993, C.K Tedam was key in forming the NPP that contested the presidential elections and lost.
He was elevated to join the Council of State after the NPP first won political power in 2000 and was made Chairman of the Party’s Council of Elders when NPP lost power in 2008.
The state burial would be attended by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Vice President Dr Mahammudu Bawumia, Ministers of State, Members of Parliament and other functionaries of the governing NPP.
The Regional Minister described Mr C.K. Tedam as an “awesome man”.
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