Mr Daniel Augustus Lartey, leader of the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP), is dead, a family spokesman said on Tuesday.
Mr Dan Lartey, popularly called "Mr Domestication", who was presidential candidate of the GCPP in 2000 and 2004 elections passed away on Monday evening in Accra, the spokesman said.
Mr Lartey set alight the 2000 election with his repeated reminder of the importance of "domestication" as a way of increasing local production. He was born on August 1, 1926 at Winneba in the Central Region. In 1942, he obtained the Sloan's Shorthand Certificate of Proficiency, and a Diploma in Commerce and Industry from the London School of Economics in 1956.
Between 1944 and 1958, Mr Lartey worked with the United Africa Company (UAC) where he rose to become a member of the Senior Management. He was
posted to the Headquarters in Unilever House, London.
Mr Lartey established a number of businesses, which included the Lartey and Lartey Books and Stationary, which later became the nucleus of the Ghana Book Supply, Citadel Printing Press and the Federal Stores of Nigeria.
His political career started in 1969 when he contested the Gomoa East Constituency seat on the ticket of the National Alliance of Liberals (NAL).
In 1972 he was appointed a special adviser to the National Redemption Council (NRC).
In 1978 he represented Gomoa Ewutu Effutu in the constituent assembly in the writing of the Third Republican Constitution.
Mr Lartey was a founding member of the People's National Party (PNP) in 1979, was an aspiring presidential candidate of the National Independence Party (NIP) in 1992, and formed the GCPP to contest the 2000 and 2004 elections.