Alhassan Sualihu Dandaawa
Member of the Ghana Parliament
for Karaga Constituency
Personal details
Born (1983-02-17) February 17, 1983
NationalityGhanaian
Political partyNational Democratic Congress

Alhassan Sualihu Dandaawa (born February 17, 1983) is a Ghanaian politician and member of the Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana representing the Karaga Constituency in the Northern Region on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress.[1]

Personal life

Dandaawa is a Muslim and is married with a child.[1]

Early life and education

Dandaawa was born on February 17, 1983. He hails from Karaga, a town in the Northern Region of Ghana.[1] He entered Islamic University College, Accra and obtained his Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Banking and Finance in 2009.[1] He also attended Mouncrest University College, Kanda-Accra and obtained a bachelor of law degree.[1]

Politics

Dandaawa is a member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). In 2012, he contested for the Karaga seat on the ticket of the NDC sixth parliament of the fourth republic and won.[1]

2012 election

Hon. Dandaawa contested the Karaga constituency parliamentary seat on the ticket of National Democratic Congress during the 2012 Ghanian general election and won with 15, 648 votes representing 51.20% of the total votes. He was elected over Baba Wahab of New Patriotic Party, Abdulai Mohammed of IND, Fuseini Ziblim (Agyekum) of progressive People's Party and Adam Yussif of PNC. They obtained 13, 107 votes, 1, 514 votes, 177 votes and 119 votes respectively. These is equivalent to 42.88%, 4.95%, 0.58% and 0.39% of the total votes respectively.[2][3]

2016 election

Hon. Dandaawa was re- elected as a member of parliament for Karaga constituency on the ticket of National Democratic Congress during the 2016 Ghanian general election and won with 15, 820 votes representing 48.97% of the total votes. He won the parliamentary seat over Sulemana Ibn Sa-eed of New Patriotic Party who pulled 10, 798 votes which is equivalent to 33.43%, parliamentary candidate for Progressive People's Party Mohammed Alhassan had 5, 405 votes representing 16.73%, Osman Adam Iddrisu of Convention People's Party had 160 votes representing 0.50% and the parliamentary candidate for PNC Alhassan Abdul Ganiyu had 120 votes representing 0.37% of the total votes.[4]

2020 election

Hon. Dandaawa again contested the Karaga (Ghana parliament constituency) parliamentary seat on the ticket of National Democratic Congress during the 2020 Ghanian general election but lost the election to Mohammed Amin Adam of New Patriotic Party.[5][6][7][8][9]

Employment

  • Administrative Assistant, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Accra[1]
  • Member of Parliament (January 7, 2013–January 7, 2021)[1][10]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Ghana MPs - List of MPs". Ghana MPs. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  2. ↑ FM, Peace. "Karaga Constituency Results - Election 2012". Ghana Elections - Peace FM. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  3. ↑ "Parliamentary Results - KaragaConstituency". mobile ghanaweb. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  4. ↑ FM, Peace. "Karaga Constituency Results - Election 2016". Ghana Elections - Peace FM. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  5. ↑ "Karaga – Election Data Center – The Ghana Report". Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  6. ↑ FM, Peace. "2020 Election - Karaga Constituency Results". Ghana Elections - Peace FM. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  7. ↑ "Parliamentary Results for Karaga". mobile ghanaweb. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  8. ↑ "MODELO PARA PREDIÇÃO DE RESULTADOS DE COLHEITAS COM BASE EM MODELOS OCULTOS DE MARKOV". IADIS Ibero American Conferences: WWW/Internet and Applied Computing 2020. IADIS Press. 2020-11-19. doi:10.33965/ciawi_ciaca2020_202015l019.
  9. ↑ "Dr Amin Adam makes history as first NPP parliamentary candidate to win Karaga seat - MyJoyOnline". MyJoyonline. 2020-12-13. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  10. ↑ FM, Peace. "2020 Election - Karaga Constituency Results". Ghana Elections - Peace FM. Retrieved 2023-10-08.


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