Dr. Obed Yao Asamoah (born 1936) is a politician from Ghana. Asamoah is the longest serving foreign minister and Attorney General of Ghana under Jerry Rawlings from 1981 to 1997. In 2002, Asamoah replaced Rawlings as head of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), beating former defense minister Alhaji Iddrisu by just 2 votes. In 2006, he lost his chairmanship position in the party amids violence. He later resigned from the party stating that he could not continue in a party in which his life was continually threatened. After accusations of having "stolen" about a 100 million cedis (which he had repored lost from his bedroom), on August 28 2006, he and other politicians (most of whom also resigned from the NDC) launched a new political party, the DEMOCRATIC FREEDOM PARTY (DFP)of which he his the life Patron. Speculation that Asamoah would run for President in 2008, he has never had the interest of running for the presidency and will not seek the Presidency but instead work to win victory for his party in that year's national elections
