Ghana Showman would-be president aims to fire up youth

It was a bombastic statement from the man who wants to disrupt Ghana's two-party system. "I'm here to represent Africa's greatest hope," Nana Kwame Bediako told an audience in a Westminster committee room in October, referring to the continent's youth.

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After the event, he suggested in a social media post that the trip had involved a presentation in parliament itself, rather than an address to a committee room.

Taken together, the trip and its somewhat loose framing were typical of the 44-year-old's unorthodox run for presidential elections being held on 7 December.

Bediako arrived on the political scene earlier this year when he revealed himself as the mysterious masked figure who had appeared on billboards across the country.

Already a well-known businessman, he is running as an independent with the backing of New Force Movement, a party he set up to support his attempt.