[2] The party was co-founded in 1969 by Kofi Abrefa Busia, who was born as a Bono prince in the traditional kingdom of Wenchi, and by Lawyer Sylvester Kofi Williams, who was born as an Ahanta prince, and a descendant of the Ahanta King Badu Bonsu II.
[3] Sylvester Kofi Williams, served as the ruling Party's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary,[4] in Ghana's 2nd republic, quasi civilian government.
Sylvester Kofi Williams remained in exile in England for only a year before he was sent on mission by the Commonwealth Secretariat to serve as the Chief Parliamentary Draftsman of the Republic of Zambia, from 1973 - 1984.
During his mission in Zambia, Williams participated in the 1979 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Lusaka, that laid the foundation for the dismantling of the Ian Smith regime in Southern Rhodesia, which resulted in the signing of the Lancaster House Agreement at Lancaster House in the United Kingdom.
In recognition of his contribution to the 1979 CHOGM conference and the coming of Independence to the new Southern African nation of Zimbabwe, he was contracted by the United Nations Development Programme to co-write the post Independence Constitution of Zimbabwe and served as the Senior Legal Advisor to the Zimbabwean Government led by President Canaan Banana and Robert Mugabe from 1984 until 1991.