 In the 1990s, he formed a civil rights organisation called Ghana's Committee on Human and People's Rights.In October 1998, Akufo-Addo competed for the presidential candidacy of the NPP and lost to John Kufuor, who subsequently won the December 2000 presidential election and assumed office as President of Ghana in January 2001.Akufo-Addo was the chief campaigner for Kufuor in the 2000 election.