Nii Ayikoi Otoo

Nii Ayikoi Otoo is a Ghanaian lawyer and politician. He belongs to the New Patriotic Party. He served as attorney general and Minister of Justice of Ghana in the John Agyekum Kufour administration. He was Ghana's High Commissioner to Canada. He is the board chairman of Ghana Life Insurance Company(GLICO).

Early life and education Nii Ayikoi Otoo was born in Mamprobi, a town in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana, to E. K. A. Otoo and Emelia Otoo. He served as secretary and later as president of the Greater Accra Regional Bar Association for three consecutive terms, spanning between 1998 and 2001. He worked with his learned colleague Nana Akuffo-Addo on the National Council of the Ghana Bar Association. As a legal practitioner, Otoo handled a lot of high-profile cases which have been reported in the Ghana Law Reports and the Supreme Court of Ghana Law Reports. He was made the board chairman of GLICO Groupe in 2022.

Political life Ayikoi Otoo was appointed as the attorney general and minister of justice by President John Agyekum Kufour in 2005 to succeed Papa Owusu-Ankomah. He ended his term as the minister in April 2006 after a ministerial reshuffle. Hon. Joe Ghartey was named in his place. He was chairman of the Constitutional Committee of the New Patriotic Party in 2010 and was a member of the party's vetting committee that vetted the presidential hopefuls for the 2011 primary. In March 2017, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo appointed Ayikoi Otoo as Ghana's High Commissioner to Canada. He served in this position until 2021 when he was replaced by Anselm Ransford Sowah.

In April 2022, Otoo announced his decision to contest to be elected as national chairman of the New Patriotic Party. He vowed to whip up ministers and other appointees to attend to the needs of party faithful. He also promised to uphold and allow party rules governing internal elections to work. However, just days to the Party's National Delegates' Conference in July 2022, he announced his withdrawal from the race despite being cleared by the vetting committee for the contest.

Personal life Ayikoi Otoo is married to Patrica Otoo, with whom he has six children.