Anthony Akoto Osei

Osei was born in Kumasi, the capital of the Ashanti Region, on 18 April 1953.[1] He had his secondary level education at Achimota School and Opoku Ware Senior High School. He continued at Oberlin College in Ohio where he obtained a Bachelor's degree in economics.[1] He earned a Master of Arts degree in applied economics from the American University in the USA.[2] He also graduated from Howard University in 1987 with a PhD in economics.[1][3]

Osei was an economist by profession.[1] On 27 March 2002, Osei became a member of the management board of Merchant Bank (Ghana) Ltd. Previously, he worked as associate professor at Dillard University (USA) and before that as a research assistant at the Centre for Policy Analysis (Ghana).[4][5]

Osei was elected as the member of parliament for the Old Tafo constituency of the Ashanti Region of Ghana for the first time in the 2004 Ghanaian general election.[13][14][15] He won on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party.[14][15] His constituency was one of the 36 parliamentary seats out of 39 seats won by the New Patriotic Party in that election in the Ashanti Region.[16] The New Patriotic Party won a majority total of 128 out of 230 parliamentary seats.[17] He was elected in 2004 with 34,957 votes out of 44,000 total valid votes cast.[14][15] This was equivalent to 79.4% of total valid votes cast.[14][15] He was elected over Salu Ibrahim of the National Democratic Congress, Andrews K Asamoah-Akoto of the Convention People's Party and Amediku Dominic D Quarshie an independent candidate.[14][15] These three candidates obtained 7,116 (16.2%), 426 (1%) and 1,501 votes (3.4%), respectively, of the total valid votes cast.[14][15]

In 2008, Osei won the general election on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party for the same constituency.[18][19] His constituency was among the 34 parliamentary seats out of 39 seats won by the New Patriotic Party in that election in the Ashanti Region.[20] The New Patriotic Party won a minority total of 109 parliamentary seats out of 230 seats.[21] Osei was elected with 36,171 votes out of 47,478 total valid votes cast.[19][18] This was equivalent to 76.18% of total valid votes cast.[18][19] He was elected over Swallah Ali of the People's National Convention, Dominic Kwabena Anomah of the National Democratic Congress, Issah Abdul Salam of the Convention People's Party and Mohammed Rabui Umar of the Reformed Patriotic Democrats.[18][19] These candidates obtained 427, 10,386, 375 and 119 votes, respectively, out of the total valid votes cast:[18][19] equivalent to 37.59%, 5.43% and 1.28%, respectively, of the total vote.[18][19]

In 2012, Osei won the general election once again for the same constituency.[22][23] He was elected with 43,561 votes out of 57,478 total valid votes cast.[22][23] This was equivalent to 75.79% of total valid votes cast.[22][23] He was elected over Memuna Kabore Abu-Bakr Siddique of the National Democratic Congress, Faruk Muhammed Tankoh of People's National Convention and Issah Abdul Salam of the Convention People's Party.[22][23] These obtained 13,454, 149 and 314 votes, respectively, of the total valid votes cast:[22][23] equivalent to 23.41%, 0.26% and 0.55%, respectively, of the total votes cast.[22][23]

Osei was a Catholic.[1] He was married with three children. He died on 20 March 2023 at the age of 69.[1]

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