Alex Kofi Agyekum

Agyekum entered parliament on 7 January 2013 as a member of parliament for the Mpohor constituency on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party. He has remained in parliament, winning the subsequent elections (2012 and 2016) since 2012.^[4]

Agyekum contested the 2012 Ghanaian general election on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party and won the Mpohor parliamentary seat with 7,114 votes out of the total votes, equivalent to 40.43%. He won the election over the National Democratic Congress parliamentary candidate Anthony Bassaw, who polled 6,333 votes, representing 35.99%, while Mary Ankoman, the parliamentary candidate for the PPP, had 4, 151 votes, representing 23.59% of the total votes cast.^[5]

During the 2016 Ghanaian general election, Agyekum again contested the Mpohor parliamentary seat on the ticket of New Patriotic Party and won, therefore representing the constituency in the Parliament of Ghana for two consecutive terms (2012 and 2016). He won the election with 8,364 votes out of the total votes representing 48.72% over the National Democratic Congress parliamentary candidate Eric Kweku Kyeremah, who polled 6,947 votes which is equivalent to 40.46%, while Joseph Benedict Auby of the PPP had 1,857 votes, representing 10.82% of the total votes.^[6]

He was elected by parliament as the chairman of the youth, sports and culture committee to look into issues of the Ghana Football Association.^[7]

Agyekum is married, and has four children. He is a Christian and fellowships at Methodist.^[8]