Shaibu Mahama | |
Constituency Mp: | Daboya-Mankarigu Constituency |
Parliament: | Ghana |
Birth Date: | 1970 10, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Ghana |
Nationality: | Ghanaian |
Party: | National Democratic Congress |
Alma Mater: | University of Cape Coast |
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. He went to Leicester Business School in the United Kingdom, where he obtained his Master of Business Administration degree in finance in 2001. He also studied at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, and obtained a Bachelor of Commerce with Diploma in Education in 1997. He also attended Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, and Ghana School of Law, in 2008 and 2010 respectively.
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.
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.[2]
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.[3] [4]
Mahama is a Muslim, and is married with five children.Has five biological sibblings. with over 90 paternal sibblings.[6]