Amadou Salifou | |
Office: | President of the National Assembly |
Term Start: | 24 November 2014 |
Term End: | 25 March 2016 |
Predecessor: | Hama Amadou, Daouda Marté (Acting) |
Successor: | Ousseini Tinni |
Party: | National Movement for the Development of Society (until 2013), Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (since 2013) |
Amadou Salifou is a Nigerien politician who was President of the National Assembly of Niger from 2014 to 2016.
Salifou is a Zarma from the Niamey suburb of Goudel.[1] He was elected to the National Assembly three times. Salifou also served twice as president of the council of Niamey.[2]
Salifou was suspended from the National Movement for the Development of Society in 2013 for supporting Nigerien President Mahamadou Issoufou.[3] On 24 November 2014, four days after Hama Amadou was removed from his post as President of the National Assembly by the Constitutional Court, Salifou was elected to replace Amadou; he received 71 out of 113 votes from the deputies of the National Assembly.[2]
Salifou lost his seat in the 2016 general election. He was replaced as President of the National Assembly by Ousseini Tinni on 25 March 2016.[4]