His secondary education was at the Ghana National College at Cape Coast in the Central Region.

He then went on to the United States where he studied at the University of Illinois where he graduated with a dual Major in Industrial design in 1983.

[2] Alfred founded a private infrastructure development company which was involved in several public–private partnership projects.

He was however disqualified from contesting by the Electoral Commission due to anomalies with his nomination papers which did not satisfy Regulation 9(2) of Constitutional Instrument (CI) 94.

[1][4] In October 2020, he successfully filed nomination papers to contest the 2020 Ghanaian general election as an independent candidate for the position of President of Ghana.