Hon. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has been nominated as the minister-designate for Foreign Affairs.
He is a four-term Ghanaian legislator representing the good people of North Tongu in the Volta Region.
Hon. Okudzeto Ablakwa has had an illustrious public service career spanning some two decades.
For nearly eight years Ablakwa between 2017 and 2024, served as a Ranking Member of the select committee on Foreign Affairs. Hon. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa is currently the Chairman of President John Mahama’s flagship anti-corruption drive, Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL).
Ablakwa was appointed Deputy Minister for Information by the late President John Evans Atta Mills in 2009 making history as the youngest Deputy Minister of Ghana’s Fourth Republic.
In 2013 President John Mahama appointed him as the Deputy Minister for Education in charge of Tertiary Education.
The minister-designate academic credentials include reading Political Science, Philosophy and Economics for his first degree at the University of Ghana, an LLB from the University of London, an MSc in Defence and International Politics from the Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College, an MA in Communications and PR from the University of Leicester and an Executive Certificate in Leadership from the Harvard Kennedy School of Governance.
Before he was called into national politics, he was the MD of Savvi Solutions and before then a University of Ghana Branch Manager of Carrera Computers.
Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa is married to Lawyer Nuhela Seidu, and they are blessed with two children.
