17 Facts About Ayikoi Otoo

Ayikoi Otoo served as attorney general and Minister of Justice of Ghana in the John Agyekum Kufour administration.

Ayikoi Otoo is the board chairman of Ghana Life Insurance Company.

Ayikoi Otoo attended Ebenezer Secondary School in Accra and obtained his GCE Ordinary Level certificate.

Ayikoi Otoo had to move to Sekondi in the Western Region of Ghana so he could attend Fijai Secondary School.

Ayikoi Otoo did his one-year mandatory national service and then sojourned to Nigeria.

Ayikoi Otoo served as secretary and later as president of the Greater Accra Regional Bar Association for three consecutive terms, spanning between 1998 and 2001.

Ayikoi Otoo worked with his learned colleague Nana Akuffo-Addo on the National Council of the Ghana Bar Association.

Ayikoi Otoo is a fellow of the Ghana Institute of International Affairs.

Ayikoi Otoo was made the board chairman of GLICO Groupe in 2022.

Ayikoi Otoo was appointed as the attorney general and minister of justice by President John Agyekum Kufour in 2005 to succeed Papa Owusu-Ankomah.

Ayikoi Otoo ended his term as the minister in April 2006 after a ministerial reshuffle.

Ayikoi Otoo was chairman of the Constitutional Committee of the New Patriotic Party in 2010 and was a member of the party's vetting committee that vetted the presidential hopefuls for the 2011 primary.

In December 2011, Ga-Adangbe youth petitioned the leadership of the New Patriotic Party to consider making Ayikoi Otoo the running mate to the then Presidential candidate, Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo.

Ayikoi Otoo served in this position until 2021 when he was replaced by Anselm Ransford Sowah.

Ayikoi Otoo vowed to whip up ministers and other appointees to attend to the needs of party faithful.

Ayikoi Otoo promised to uphold and allow party rules governing internal elections to work.

Ayikoi Otoo is married to Patrica Otoo, with whom he has six children.