Iddrisu Zakari Alidu | |
Successor: | Sagre Bambangi |
Office1: | MP for Walewale |
Term Start1: | 7 January 2009 |
Term End1: | 7 January 2013 |
President1: | John Evans Atta Mills |
Birth Date: | 6 March 1956 |
Birth Place: | Janga, Northern Region (Ghana) Gold Coast (now Ghana) |
Nationality: | Ghanaian |
Party: | National Democratic Congress |
Children: | 9 |
Alma Mater: | University of Education, Winneba, |
Occupation: | Politician |
Profession: | Teacher |
Iddrisu Zakari Alidu is a Ghanaian politician and an MP for Walewale. He is a member of the National Democratic Congress.(NDC).[1]
Zakari was born on 6 March 1956 in Janga his hometown in the Northern Region of Ghana. He attended the University of Education, Winneba where he graduated with his Bachelor of Education in Accounting and also attend Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) located at Achimota in Accra for his Executive Masters in Governance and Leadership(EMGL) in 2008.[2]
Zakari is a teacher by profession.[3]
Zakari was elected on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to represent the Walewale constituency after winning with 11,355 votes during the 2004 Ghanaian general election. He had a total of 35.30% of all votes cast during the 2004 elections and won to represent the Walewale constituency.[4] He contested again and won in the 2008 Ghanaian general election which gave him the opportunity to represent his constituency for the second time.[5]
He is married with nine children and is a Muslim.[1]