Frank Amoakohene

Dr. Frank Amoakohene is a Ghanaian medical doctor and politician born on 24 September 1990, who serves as the Ashanti Regional Minister in the government of President John Dramani Mahama. Appointed in January 2025 at the age of thirty-four, he made history as the youngest person ever to serve as a regional minister in Ghana, combining a medical career with a political trajectory that brought him to one of the country's most strategically significant regional governorships at an unusually early stage of his public life.

Education and medical training

Amoakohene began his schooling at St Monica's Primary School and St Andrews Junior High School before attending Osei Tutu Senior High School in Kumasi, where he completed his West African Senior School Certificate Examination in 2008. He proceeded to the University of Ghana, graduating in 2014 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Medical Laboratory Sciences. He returned to medical training and earned a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree in 2020, qualifying as a medical doctor at a time when many of his political contemporaries had already been in professional life for years.

NDC service and political career

Before his ministerial appointment, Amoakohene served as the Ashanti Regional Secretary for the National Democratic Congress, a demanding organisational role in a region where the NDC has historically faced its most competitive electoral environment, the Ashanti Region being the stronghold of the New Patriotic Party. He demonstrated his personal electoral ambition in the 2020 general elections by contesting as the NDC's parliamentary candidate for the Mampong constituency, gaining the experience of a direct electoral contest that informed his understanding of the region's political landscape. His work as Regional Secretary in building party structures and managing the NDC's operations in the Ashanti Region contributed to the party's improved performance across the country in the 2024 elections.

As Ashanti Regional Minister

President Mahama's decision to appoint him Ashanti Regional Minister was widely noted as a signal of confidence in a young professional whose medical training and party organisational experience made him a different kind of political figure. As of February 2026, he had served for approximately thirteen months, a period in which he had focused on development coordination and the relationship between the regional government and the NDC's political project of economic transformation.

Political Legacy

Frank Amoakohene's early appointment as Ashanti Regional Minister represents one of the more striking instances of generational change in Ghanaian regional governance. His record as Ghana's youngest regional minister, combined with his dual background in medicine and party administration, marks him as a figure worth watching in the longer arc of Ghanaian public life.