Akua Donkor

Akua Donkor (February 1952 – 28 October 2024) was a Ghanaian farmer and politician. She is the founder and was the leader of Ghana Freedom Party (GFP).

Early life Akua Donkor was born in February 1952 in Ejuratia in the Afigya Kwabre District in the Ashanti Region of Ghana (then the Gold Coast). She was a Cocoa farmer by profession and was not known to have had any formal education.

Personal life Akua Donkor birthed a daughter who goes by the name Ama Serwaa Bonsu.

2012 election

She applied to contest as an independent candidate in the 2012 election to become president of Ghana but was disqualified by the Electoral Commission on accounts of not meeting the requirements set for the election. She later decided to give her support to Paa Kwesi Nduom of the Progressive People's Party.

2016 election

In January, months before the elections, Donkor's GFP headquarters located at Kabu in the Eastern Region was gutted by fire. Speaking on the incident, Donkor said the disaster was a test which would not deter her quest to become the president of Ghana.

However on 10 October 2016, the Ghana Electoral Commission announced the disqualification of Akua Donkor, together with 12 other presidential candidates from contesting 7 December election.

2020 election

In 2020, Donkor was among the three female presidential candidates to be cleared to contest the 2020 presidential elections. Out of the 12 candidates that contested, she came fifth.

2024 election

Donkor successfully filed her nomination to contest in the 2024 presidential elections, and placed number 3 on the ballot paper.

Later, Donkor threatened to take John Dramani Mahama, the 2024 presidential candidate for the National Democratic Congress, to court over derogatory comments on her qualification as a presidential candidate during an Inter-Party Advisory Committee meeting which was held on 15 October 2024 in Accra.

The Ghana Freedom Party (GFP) named Philip Appiah Kubi as a flagbearer replacement for Akua, however he was disqualified due to errors and illegitimate information found in his nomination form.

Campaign promises Donkor promised to implement free education from basic to secondary level.

She also wanted the country to elect its first female president, stating women had the capacity to "help change the fortunes of the country for the better". She had been diagnosed with abdominal complications two days prior.