Tedam won another election in 1969 to serve in the second republic but was disqualified after a court ruling resulting from a legal suit that was brought against him.
He became the Chairman of the Party's Council of elders during the time the NPP went in Opposition after 2008 and remained in that role till death.
His niece, Catherine Tedam won the by election and represented the Chiana Paga Constituency as an MP during the administration of Kofi Abrefa Busia.
C. K. Tedam died peacefully in the night of 25 April 2019 at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra where he had been undergoing treatment.,[10][11] He was buried on Saturday the 22nd of June 2019, in Paga, his hometown in the Kassena Nankana West district in the Upper East Region.
[12] C. K. Tedam received awards for his services from the Pope John Paul, Paga Development Association and the New Patriotic Party.