Comfort Doyoe Cudjoe

Comfort Doyoe Cudjoe-Ghansah has held the Ada seat for the NDC since a 2016 by-election, winning about 80 per cent of the vote each time. She was Deputy Government Chief Whip in the Eighth Parliament.

Background

She was born in Big Ada on 3 November 1967. She earned a stenography diploma from the Royal Academy of Accounting in Accra in 1983 and a certificate in radio and TV presentation from the Ghana Institute of Journalism in 2011.

Government and Parliament

President Mahama made her Minister of State for Social and Allied Institutions in January 2013. In 2014 she rejected claims that she had paid assembly members to vote down the President's nominee for district chief executive, and a regional emergency meeting cleared her. In 2016 she presented computers to the head of the civil service on behalf of government and gave more than 500 desks to schools in Ada. She won the 2016 by-election with 18,954 of 23,570 votes, was returned in 2020 with 27,591 votes (82.14 per cent), and kept the seat in December 2024. She has sat on the gender and children and foreign affairs committees.