{"id":610446,"date":"2019-04-26T13:43:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T13:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Friday, 26 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>mynewsgh.com<\/p>\n2019-04-26\n\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/04\/40998470.2"},"modified":"2019-04-26T13:43:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T13:43:39","slug":"npps-c-k-tedam-dead-general-news-2019-04-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/26\/npps-c-k-tedam-dead-general-news-2019-04-26\/","title":{"rendered":"NPP&#8217;s C.K Tedam dead | General News 2019-04-26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Friday, 26 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>mynewsgh.com<\/p>\n<p>2019-04-26<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/40998470.295.jpg\" alt=\"CK Tedam NPP Elder\" title=\"CK Tedam NPP Elder\" width=\"295\" height=\"219\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>C. K Tedam died on Thursday night at his residence<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The Chairman of the Council of Elders of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr C.K. Tedam is dead, family sources have revealed to MyNewsGh.com.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. C.K Tedem who is a founding member of the NPP and former Council of State Member died in his sleep at his home in Accra on Thursday night, this portal gathered.<\/p>\n<p>The 94-year-old was among the early political torchbearers from the then Northern Territories.<\/p>\n<p>C. K. Tedam first won election to parliament as an independent candidate in 1954. He was a founding member of the Northern People\u2019s Party. He stood and won another election to parliament in 1956 on the ticket of the Northern People\u2019s Party, NPP. He also served as a Minister of Local Government during the regime of the Supreme Military Council (Ghana).<\/p>\n<p>C K. Tedam was a member of the Council of State during the regime of John Kufuor.<\/p>\n<p>He is a founding member of the New Patriotic Party. He became the Chairman of the Party\u2019s Council of elders during the time the NPP went in Opposition after 2008. As at May 2015 he was the Chairman of the Council.<\/p>\n<p>He was the son of Pagapio Tedam and the brother of Pagapio Awampaga.<\/p>\n<p>Before entering parliament, C.K. Tedam had been a teacher. He, however, comes from a political party. His niece, Catherine Tedam won the by election and represented the Chiana Paga Constituency as an MP during the administration of Kofi Abrefa Busia.<\/p>\n<p>He was married to Winifred Tedam, daughter and sister of Chiefs J.K. Karbo and Abeifa Karbo of Lawra. C. K. Tedam has six children. 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K Tedam died on Thursday night at his residence The Chairman of the Council of Elders of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr C.K. Tedam is dead, family sources have revealed to MyNewsGh.com. Mr. C.K Tedem who is a founding member of the NPP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":610447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NPP&#039;s C.K Tedam dead | General News 2019-04-26 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/26\/npps-c-k-tedam-dead-general-news-2019-04-26\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"NPP&#039;s C.K Tedam dead | General News 2019-04-26 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"General News of Friday, 26 April 2019 Source: mynewsgh.com 2019-04-26 C. 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