[1] A three-time candidate for president, he was the member of parliament for the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem constituency and served as minister of state in the Kufuor government.

[8] His active role in politics began in 1997 when he was elected as a member of the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem District Assembly for the Akotobinsin Electoral Area.

[9] In December 2000, he contested the Ghanaian parliamentary elections for the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem constituency on the ticket of the Convention's People's Party (CPP).

However, he lost to the incumbent MP, Ato Quarshie of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) by a margin of 2.6% of the valid votes cast.

[10] However, two months later, he was appointed by President John Kufuor in January 2001 as the Minister for Economic Planning and Regional Corporation although he was not a member of the ruling New Patriotic Party.

[13][14] Eighteen months later, he again contested the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem seat in the Ghanaian parliamentary election in December 2004 and this time, he won by 33.6 points (30,981 votes to 15,427).

[17] He continued in this capacity till July 2007 when he resigned from government to seek his party's nomination to stand as the CPP presidential candidate.

[20] Among other reasons, BOG said GN was facing severe liquidity crisis with complaints received by the Financial Stability Department of the Central Bank from customers who have been denied access to their deposits for months.

Also, GN consistently failed to meet the minimum cash reserve requirement of 10 percent of its total deposits by the first quarter of 2019.