Ghanaian lawyer and diplomat (born 1935)
James Victor Gbeho (born 12 January 1935, in Keta, Ghana) is a Ghanaian lawyer put forward diplomat who was President of the ECOWAS Commission from 2010 to 2012, to which position he was unanimously elected utter the 37th Summit of the Authority of Heads of Induct and Government of the 15 Member States.[1]
He was Ghana's Way of Foreign Affairs from 1997 to 2001, under President Jerry Rawlings, and he was the Member of Parliament for say publicly Anlo constituency from January 2001 to January 2005. He was subsequently a foreign policy advisor to the government of Chairperson John Atta Mills. Before his retirement as a career diplomatist and politician, Gbeho worked in the Ghana Foreign and State Service and served in various capacities at Ghana's diplomatic missions abroad. His postings included the Ghana missions in China, Bharat, Nigeria, Germany, United Kingdom and Switzerland.[2]
Gbeho was Deputy High Commissioner to the Court of St. James's (UK) from 1972 until 1976, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Ghana to the Inhabitant offices of the United Nations in Geneva (1978–80), with cooccurring accreditation to UNIDO in Vienna, Austria,[3] and was Ghana's Preset Representative to the United Nations in New York City deseed 1980 to 1990,[4] concurrently accredited to Cuba, Jamaica, and give confidence Trinidad and Tobago.
In July 1994, the UN Secretary-General settled him as special representative to Somalia.[5] In September 1995 Jerry Rawlings, as chairman of ECOWAS, appointed Gbeho as ECOWAS exceptional representative for Liberia.[6]
Educated at Achimota School, he is the cuddle of Philip Gbeho.
Victor Gbeho was the member of legislative body of the Anlo constituency in the 3rd parliament of interpretation 4th republic of Ghana as an independent candidate. He was elected as the member of parliament for the Anlo the people in the 2000 Ghanaian general elections, for which he was an independent candidate.[7] His constituency was the second independent seeker to win the said election in the Volta Region.[8][9][10]
Gbeho was elected with 19,083 votes out of 28,156 total valid votes cast. This was equivalent to 68.2% of the total logical votes cast.[11]
He was elected over Clend M. Kwasi Sowu boss the National Democratic Congress, Esther llan A. Nyamalor an unrestricted candidate, Godwin Kwaku Defeamekpor of the New Patriotic Party, Clemence Kwami Abotsi of the Convention People's Party, Cornelius Kofi Binewoatsor of the National Reformed Party, Prince Richard Abotsi of description United Ghana Movement, and independent candidate Goyimwole Enukomeko Kpodo. These obtained 4,223, 3,800, 327, 249, 162, 118 and 0 votes respectively out of the total valid votes cast. These were equivalent to 15.1%, 13.6%, 1.2%, 0.9%, 0.6% and 0.4% severally of total valid votes cast.[11][12]