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Alexander Abban

Ghanaian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ61694539
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Alexander Kodwo Kom Abban (born 6 December 1973) is a Ghanaian politician and a member of the Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana representing the Gomoa West Constituency in the Central Region on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party.

Early life and education

Abban was born on 6 December 1973 and hails from Gomoa Dawurampong in the Central Region of Ghana. He had his Master of Law degree in Banking and Financial law from the Boston University School of Law in 2008. He had his Medical License from the Medical and Dental Council. He also had his Bachelor of Science degree in Human Biology from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Bachelor of Science degree in Medicine and Surgery from the same institution. He further had his master's degree in public health from the Hamburg School of Applied Science. He also had a certificate in German from the Goethe Institut in Accra.

Career

Abban was a Legal Advisor from 2013 to 2014 at Ghana Stock Exchange. He was also a lecturer at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration from 2009 to 2010. He was also a Part-time lecturer at the Ghana School of Law from 2010 to 2015.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Alexander Abban” as ghanaian politician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1973, 2008, 2013, 2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Alexander, Abban and Ghanaian can be independently traced.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q61694539. The first chronological checks are 1973, 2008, 2013 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from Alexander Abban” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.