Kofi Wayo once wanted to become president of Ghana
The political landscape in Ghana has travelled many journeys, especially since 1992; the dawn of the current republic. And with it have come various names who are neither aligned with the National Democratic Congress (NDC) nor the New Patriotic Party (NPP), but who have made great attempts at becoming president of Ghana.
Among those unsuccessful names is the man Eric Charles Kofi Wayo, who was the Founder of the defunct United Renaissance Party (URP).
In his case, he made a few attempts at the topmost job of the country, first on the ticket of the People’s National Convention (PNC) in 2004.
In March 2004, Kofi Wayo filed his presidential nomination on the ticket of the People’s National Convention (PNC) to challenge for the presidency in the 2004 Election.
This was an official attempt to become a presidential candidate, although he did not become the flagbearer of the party.
And then in 2007, he formed the United Renaissance Party (URP) and stepped into its flagbearer role, after leaving other parties.
Wayo became the leader and presidential candidate of the URP in the 2008 Election and while his party was registered and he was its flagbearer going into the election cycle, he was unsuccessful in appearing on the official presidential ballot due to the party’s limited activity and organizational issues.
But he remained a likeable political figure for a while until he announced his departure from Ghanaian politics in 2017, hinting that he was going into farming.
Giving reason for his decision he said; “I am now into farming and assisting the farmers in the villages with implements and other logistics unlike their MPs who are cruising in Land Cruisers and don’t care about them.”
He observed that successive governments had paid lip service to farmers in rural Ghana and further impoverished the farmers who were unable to fend for their families when they were rather the ones to be properly taken care of.
“While you guys were at the Independence Square dancing and making some useless noise, I was in the farm working. These farmers need first aid and I want government to institute measures to make health care accessible to them. I am a celebrated being in the village giving exercise books and cutlasses to the poor farmers who need them,” he stated.
That was what he stood for, but since then, very little has been heard about the man who once had a burning desire to become Ghana’s president.
With little details about him and what he has been up to online – social media especially, the real question is where is Kofi Wayo? What has he been up?
As 2025 winds down, GhanaWeb hopes to, possibly, get the attention of the political maverick and update readers on what he has been doing since retiring from politics.
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