Kofi Bediako Gershon Gbediame Explained

Office:Member of Parliament
Term Start:January 2005
Term End:2008
President:John Kufuor
Constituency2:Nkwanta South
Honorific-Prefix:Hon.
Office2:Member of Parliament
Term Start2:7 January 2009
Term End2:6 January 2013
President2:John Atta Mills
Gershon Kofi Bediako Gbediame
Constituency:Nkwanta South
Party:National Democratic Congress
Majority2:NDC
Nationality:Ghana
Children:5
Alma Mater:University of Cape Coast
Occupation:Educationist

Kofi Bediako Gershon Gbediame is a Ghanaian politician and member of the Sixth Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana representing the Nkwanta South Constituency in the Volta region of Ghana on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress.[1] [2] [3] [4]

Early life and education

Gbediame was born in Pusupu Ntruo in the Volta region. He attended University of Cape Coast where he obtained a bachelor's degree in Physics and a diploma in Education in 1979.[5]

Career

Gbediame is an educationist. He was Senior Superintendent and tutor at Presbyterian Boys' Senior High at Legon. He became an MP in 1997. He was a Physics Teacher. He was the former Majority Chief Whip after replacing E. T. Mensah.[6]

Politics

Gbediame is a member of the National Democratic Congress. He is in the 5th term of being a Member of Parliament. He won his parliamentary elections in 1997 by obtaining 13, 870 out of 36,819 valid vote cast. This was 37.67% of the total votes. He has been in parliament from 1997 to date.[7]

Gbediame was elected as Member of parliament for the Nkwanta South constituency in the 5th parliament of the 4th republic.[8] [9]

He was elected on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress and obtained 18,171votes out of 31,479 total valid votes cast, equivalent to 57.72% of total valid votes cast.[10]

He was elected over Joseph Booker Yaw Denteh of the New Patriotic Party; and David Boamah Asomani, Oliver Ayivi and Okogye A K Joseph, three independent candidates.

Personal life

Gbediame is married with five children.[11] He is a Christian who fellowships at the Great Commission Church International.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ghana MPs - MP Details - Gbediame, Kofi Bediako Gershon . 2020-01-31 . Ghana MPs.
  2. Web site: Member of Ghana Parliament.
  3. Web site: Who Is The Man To Take The People Of Nkwanta South To The Promised Land?. Sherrif. Awiagah. 6 July 2016. Modern Ghana. 3 August 2020.
  4. Web site: 22 December 2008 . The idiocy and prospects of Gbediame's juju . 2020-08-02 . GhanaWeb.com.
  5. Web site: Ghana Parliament member Gershon K. B. Gbediame . 2020-06-22 . GhanaWeb.
  6. Web site: Avoka Leads NDC MPs - Ghanamma.com. 2020-08-02. en-US.
  7. Web site: Ghana MPs - MP Details - Gbediame, Kofi Bediako Gershon . 2020-07-10 . Ghana MPs.
  8. Web site: Results Parliamentary Elections . 2020-07-11 . GhanaWeb..
  9. Web site: 2014-01-16. Hon Gbediame Robbed. 2020-08-02. News Ghana. en-US.
  10. Book: Ghana Elections 2008. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. 2010. Ghana. 127.
  11. Web site: 2016-05-06. Ghana MPs - MP Details - Gbediame, Gershon K. B.. 2020-07-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20160506151145/http://ghanamps.gov.gh/mps/details.php?id=146. 6 May 2016.