Jacob Osei Yeboah


Jacob Osei Yeboah is a politician who contested as an independent candidate for Ghana's presidential elections in 2012 and 2016. He was one of the four candidates out of seventeen, to have survived the Electoral Commission's controversial disqualification of candidates ahead of the 2016 general elections in Ghana. He is an old student of Opoku Ware School. He had his first degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in 1994. He began his graduate National Service at Ashanti Goldfields Company in Obuasi and was later employed in October 1995. Jacob became board member representing the senior staff in October 1996, a feat that marvelled many. He also rose through the ranks from Instrumentation Engineer to Instrumentation Superintendent at the Pompora Treatment Plant within three years by hard work and much transformation to process control. Jacob was later appointed as Projects Coordinator in year 2000. He served the AGC Obuasi board for two terms in six years. He joined Sherwood International, a member of Supergroup Company in South Africa, as the W/Africa Manager for mining companies purposely in developing the Supply Chain Management.