Jacob Osei Yeboah is a politician who ran as an

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for

Ghana Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to t ...

's presidential elections in

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and

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. Yeboah obtained less than one percent of the valid votes cast in the 2012 presidential election and was one of four presidential candidates to not be disqualified by the Electoral Commission ahead of the 2016 General Election. Yeboah is a former student of

Opoku Ware School Opoku Ware School, often referred to as OWASS, is a Public school (government funded), public Catholic school, Catholic senior high school for boys, located in Santasi, Kumasi, Santasi, a suburb of Kumasi, which is the capital of the Ashanti r ...

(Santasi-Kumasi) and received his first degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering from

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), commonly known as UST, Tech or Kwame Tech, is a public university located in Kumasi, Ashanti region, Ghana. The university focuses on science and technology. It is the second public uni ...

in 1994. Yeboah began his graduate national service at the Ashanti Goldfields Company (AGC) in Obuasi and was later employed in October 1995. Jacob became a board member representing the senior staff in October 1996. Yeboah progressed through the ranks at the Pompora Treatment Plant (PTP), going from instrumentation engineer to instrumentation superintendent within three years. Yeboah was later appointed as Projects Coordinator in 2000. He served on the AGC Obuasi board for two terms over a period of six years. Yeboah joined Sherwood International, a member of the Supergroup Company in

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, as the W/Africa Manager for mining companies developing supply chain management.

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Living people Candidates for President of Ghana Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of Opoku Ware School Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology alumni {{Ghana-politician-stub