Kow Nkensen Arkaah

Arkaah became the leader of the National Convention Party (NCP) prior to the 1992 presidential elections. His party formed an alliance with the National Democratic Congress (NDC) of Jerry Rawlings, and Every Ghanaian Living Everywhere (EGLE). As part of the deal, Arkaah became the vice-presidential candidate on Rawlings' ticket. Rawlings and Arkaah had a difficult working relationship throughout their four-year term. The high point was an alleged punch-up between them at a cabinet meeting on 28 December 1995.^[3][4] Rawlings alluded that there had been some form of misunderstanding.^[5] Arkaah styled himself the "stubborn cat" after that incident.^[1]

Arkaah became the leader of the Convention People's Party formed by the merger of the NCP and the People's Convention Party. The merger was announced on 29 January 1996.^[6] Arkaah, who continued as vice-president of Ghana, stood as a candidate in the 1996 presidential elections and lost. He was replaced in the Rawlings government by Professor John Atta Mills, a law lecturer, as Rawlings' deputy.

Arkaah was involved in a road traffic accident at Cantonments, Accra. He died of his injuries in Atlanta in the United States on 25 April 2001.^[1]