The Metropolitan Chief Executive of Tamale, Sule Salifu, has picked nominations to contest the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary Primaries for the Tamale Central Constituency.
Sule Salifu, until his nomination as the mayor of Tamale, served as the Northern Regional Director of Communications.
The forms were picked on his behalf by a former Northern Regional Director of Communications, Ibrahim Mohammed Sheriff, who has been appointed as Sule Salifu’s campaign spokesperson.
Tamale Central is one of the nine orphan constituencies in the Northern Region the governing party has opened nominations for to elect prospective candidates by year-end for the 2024 parliamentary elections.
The seat was created prior to the Ghanaian parliamentary election in 2004.
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has won the seat on every parliamentary election.
In 2020, for instance, Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed of the NDC polled a total of 41,195, representing 55 .6%, to beat NPP’s Dr Ibrahim Anyars, who polled 33,627, representing 44.94%.
Sule Salifu can be described as a seasoned politician who has risen through all the ranks right from his school days to the point where he won the confidence of President Nana Akufo-Addo to become the mayor of Tamale.
The governing NPP has targeted to snatch the seat from the National Democratic Congress in 2024.
Brief history
Sule Salifu had his Secondary education at the Tamale Senior High School and holds an HND in Secretaryship and Management from the Tamale Technical University and Masters degree in Strategic human resource Management from the University for Development Studies.
Sule Salifu is currently the Metropolitan Chief Executive officer of the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly.
He previously worked as the Northern Regional Director for Youth Employment Agency (YEA).
He has also worked as Regional Monitoring and Evaluation Officer of the Ghana School Feeding Programme in the Northern Region from 2006 to 2008.
Hon Salifu Sule who has expressed interest to contest the NPP Primaries in the Tamale Central constituency also has the following experiences:
a) Regional Communication Officer of the NPP. Northern Region 2019 to 2021.
b) National Council Member of the NPP representing the Northern Region from 2014 to 2018 and 2020 to date.
c) Northern Regional Secretary of the NPP from 2014 to 2018.
d) TESCON President. Tamale Technical University Tamale from 2003 to 2004.
e) TESCON Secretary Tamale Technical University Northern Region from 2002 to 2003
f) Member Regional Communication Team (PRIM) Northern Region 2002 to 2004
g) Polling Station Secretary Yendi Constituency of the Northern Region 2001.
It must be stated that Sule Salifu is a registered voter in the Tamale Central Constituency and was a campaign team member of Musah Superior in the build-up to the 2012 parliamentary elections.
By Christopher Amoako|3news.com|Ghana