The death has been reported of former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings.
Mrs Rawlings is said to have passed on shortly after admission at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Ridge, Accra.
She was 76.
Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings will be remembered for her role in the advent of the Fourth Republic.
As the wife of the longest-serving head of state of Ghana, she initiated several causes in the advancement of women’s and children’s rights.
She founded the 31st December Women’s Movement, obviously to resonate with the date on which her husband staged his coup d’etat in 1981, for her social causes.
She contested then sitting President Professor John Evans Atta Mills in the presidential primaries of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in an unprecedented move that drew criticism and led to her fallout with the party.
Undeterred, she later founded the National Democratic Party (NDP) ahead of the 2012 general elections.
Despite being disqualified from contesting that year, she was cleared for the 2016 edition, where she came sixth out of seven candidates. She did better than the only independent candidate, Jacob Osei Yeboah.
She was on the ballot of the next presidential elections but did not really contest as she lost her husband, Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings, Rtd., barely a month before the polls.
Her family has requested privacy as funeral and burial arrangements are made.