Fati Seidu is a

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politician who was the member of the Second parliament of the Fourth republic representing the

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constituency in the

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Politics

She contested for the

seat on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) during the 1996 parliamentary election and won polling 30,045 votes out of the 54,327 valid votes cast which represented 42.80% of the entire votes cast against

Hawa Yakubu Hawa Yakubu Ogede (24 March 1948 – 20 March 2007) was a Ghanaian politician. She was a Member of Parliament in the Fourth Republic of Ghana and also served as Minister for Tourism. Early life and education Hawa Yakubu was born at Tarkwa in ...

who polled 21,493 votes which represented 30.60% of the entire votes cast and Awini Emmanuel Akami who polled 2,789 votes representing 4.00%. She lost the seat however during the 2000 parliamentary election to Hawa Yakubu but demanded a recount of the votes as she claimed counting of the votes by the

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had been interrupted by violence in the area. The violence according to the police even though political, had evolved into a tribal conflict between the Mamprusis and the Kusasis. In 2004, she was replaced by

Mahama Ayariga Mahama Ayariga (born 12 May 1974) is a lawyer and politician in Ghana. He belongs to the National Democratic Congress. He was the Minister of Information and Media Relations and the Minister of Youth and Sports under the John Dramani Mahama admi ...

as the parliamentary candidate of the NDC for the

constituency. Ayariga went on to win the seat during the 2004 parliamentary election and consequently unseated the then incumbent member of parliament, Hawa Yakubu. She once served on the council of the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Seidu, Fati Ghanaian MPs 1997–2001 Women members of the Parliament of Ghana 20th-century Ghanaian women politicians 21st-century Ghanaian women politicians National Democratic Congress (Ghana) politicians Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Ghanaian Muslims People from Upper East Region

Politics

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