John Tia Akologo, a former Member of Parliament for Talensi Constituency, has been confirmed deceased. He died in Bolga this morning after becoming ill short.
Tia served as Talensi’s MP from 1993 to 2013. He was appointed Ghana’s Ambassador to Cuba in 2014, and he stayed till the NDC lost the 2016 general elections.
Akologu was first elected to Parliament in Ghana’s December 1992 legislative election. He was re-elected in 1996, winning with 16,978 votes out of 23,815 valid votes cast, 56.60% more than Mariam Adukuma Abagna Kahid, who received 5,759 votes, 19.20%, and Belmogre Caspard Nyaaba, who received 1,078 votes, 3.60%.
He won the 2000 general election with 9,655 votes out of 21,311 valid votes cast, representing 45.30%, over Hajia M. A. Abagna-Khaldi, who received 7,607 votes, representing 35.70%, Samuel Kuug Narook, who received 3,341 votes, representing 15.70%, John T.Z. Yaroh, who received 459 votes, representing 2.20%, and Oscar Kurug Tindaan, who received 249 votes, representing 1.20%.
He was re-elected as a member of parliament for the Talensi constituency in Ghana’s 2004 general election.
He won on behalf of the National Democratic Congress. In that election, the National Democratic Congress gained 9 of the Upper East Region’s 13 parliamentary seats. The National Democratic Congress won 94 of the 230 parliamentary seats.
He was elected with 8,346 votes out of 22,148 valid ballots polled. This amounted to 37.4% of all valid votes cast.
He was chosen over Samuel Kuug Narook of the Peoples’ National Convention, Hajia Mariam Abagna Khalidi of the New Patriotic Party, and John Teroug Zongbil of the Convention Peoples.
He was 63 at the time of death and is survived by a wife and four children
