Shaibu Mahama
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Shaibu Mahama | |
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| Member of the Ghana Parliament for Daboya-Mankarigu Constituency | |
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| Born | 15 October 1970 Ghana |
| Party | National Democratic Congress |
| Alma mater | University of Cape Coast; Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology; Ghana School of Law |
Shaibu Mahama (born 15 October 1970) is a Ghanaian politician and member of the Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana representing the Daboya-Mankarigu Constituency in Ghana's Northern Region on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress.[1]
Mahama was born on 15 October 1970. He hails from Daboya, a town in the Northern Region of Ghana.[2] He went to Leicester Business School in the United Kingdom, where he obtained his Master of Business Administration degree in finance in 2001.[2] He also studied at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, and obtained a Bachelor of Commerce with Diploma in Education in 1997.[2] He also attended Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, and Ghana School of Law, in 2008 and 2010 respectively.[2]
Politics
Mahama is a member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). In 2016, he contested the Daboya-Mankarigu seat on the ticket of the NDC Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana and won.[1]
2016 election
Mahama contested the Daboya-Mankarigu parliamentary seat on the ticket of National Democratic Congress during the 2016 Ghanaian general election and won with 9,208 votes representing 51.46% over Tika Samuel Yeyu of the New Patriotic Party who pulled 8,589 votes, which is equivalent to 48.00% and the parliamentary candidate for the Convention People's Party Alidu Mahama had 95 votes representing 0.53% of the total votes.[3]
2020 election
Mahama again contested the Daboya- Mankarigu (Ghana parliament constituency) on the ticket of National Democratic Congress during the 2020 Ghanaian general election but lost the election to Mahama Asei Seini of the New Patriotic Party.[4][5]
