Benjamin Narteh Ayiku

Benjamin Narteh Ayiku is a Ghanaian accountant and politician born on 5 August 1964 in Teshie in the Greater Accra Region, who serves as the Member of Parliament for the Ledzokuku constituency. A member of the National Democratic Congress, he won one of the closest parliamentary contests of the 2020 election cycle when he unseated the incumbent NPP MP Bernard Okoe Boye, and was re-elected in December 2024 to continue representing a densely populated Greater Accra coastal constituency where electoral competition between the two major parties has been intense.

Professional background

Ayiku's professional career has been anchored in accounting and financial management. He obtained his General Certificate of Education in 1986 and built a career in financial services and banking, including a position as Production Manager at Stanbic Bank Ghana, a role that placed him within one of the country's significant financial institutions. His work as an accountant and accounts and financial officer gave him the professional identity and the institutional experience that informed his parliamentary campaign and subsequent advocacy on economic and financial matters affecting his Ledzokuku constituency.

2020 election

In the December 2020 general election, he won the Ledzokuku seat with 55,938 votes representing 50.5 per cent of the total valid votes, defeating the incumbent Bernard Okoe Boye who received 54,072 votes representing 48.8 per cent. The margin of 1,866 votes in a high-turnout coastal Greater Accra constituency was among the most closely watched individual results of that election night, reflecting the genuine competitiveness of a seat that the NPP had held and the significance of flipping it to the NDC. He assumed office on 7 January 2021.

Parliamentary career

He retained the Ledzokuku seat in December 2024, securing a second term in the Ninth Parliament. Ledzokuku is a densely settled constituency in the Teshie area of Greater Accra, with communities engaged in fishing, trading and a range of informal and formal economy activities. His background in banking and accounting gives him a practical understanding of the financial access, savings and credit issues that affect both household and small business development in an urban coastal constituency.

Political Legacy

Benjamin Narteh Ayiku's consecutive victories in a competitive seat he won from an incumbent reflect both the quality of his constituency engagement and the NDC's ability to hold urban coastal Greater Accra seats once they are won. His accounting and banking background gives his parliamentary work a financial sector lens relevant to Ledzokuku's largely urban economy.