Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey is dead, reliable sources within Ghana’s biggest opposition party have told Ghanacelebrities.com
Rumours about the former New Patriotic Party chairman’s death has been the toast of social media since Wednesday night.
The rumour mill has it that the former Tourism Minister died in South Africa while seeking medical attention.
Information reaching us has it that, NPP’s Jake Obetsebi Lamptey is DEAD—the Ghanaian politician and a former television and radio producer was born on 4 February 1946.
From 2005 to July 2007, Obetsebi-Lamptey served as Minister of Tourism and Diasporan Relations in the cabinet of President John Kufuor. Previously Obetsebi-Lamptey was Minister of Tourism and Modernization of the Capital (2002–05) and Minister of Information (2001–02). He was the National Campaign Manager of the victorious New Patriotic Party (NPP) during the 2000 Presidential elections, which saw the first constitutional (civilian-to-civilian) transition of power in that country.
He resigned his posts in July 2007 to campaign for the NPP nomination for the 2008 Presidential elections. As of February 2010, he is the National Chairman of the NPP.
