Paul Essien is a Ghanaian politician and member of the Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana representing the Jomoro Constituency in the Western Region on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party.
He also has a Bachelor Science degree in Statistics from the University of Cape Coast.
He is a member of the 7th parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana representing the Jomoro Constituency.
He won the bid to represent the constituency after winning in the 2016 parliamentary and presidential elections.
He won in a fiercely contested election against most notably Thomas Elleamo Yankey of the National Democratic Congress and Samia Yaaba Christina Nkrumah of the Convention People's Party who is a former member of parliament (2009-2013) and happens to be the daughter of Ghana's first president Kwame Nkrumah.