Former Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC, Joseph Kobina Ade Coker, has passed away.

Party sources indicate that he died at the Bank Hospital on Saturday, May 31, after a brief illness.

He was elected as the Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the NDC in 2009, a position he held until 2022, when he lost his re-election bid to Emmanuel Nii Ashie Moore, the current chairman.

Ade Coker once served as Vice Chairman of the Ghana Football Association.