Dr. Bawumia’s Sister, Lariba Zuweira Abudu Wins walewale Constituency
The Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Northern Development Authority, Lariba Abudu, has won Walewale Constituency defeating two other contestants in Tuesday’s parliamentary race.Even though it is obvious that the number of representation of Women in Parliament is not growing as expected, however the outcome of the 2020 parliamentary elections proves an upsurge of women legislators in Ghana’s Parliament.
She is known to have defeated the Deputy Agric Minister, Dr Sagre Bambangi, in the NPP Primaries race held in the constituency.
Mrs. Lariba Abudu Walewale a sister to the Vice President of Ghana Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia who before her appointment as the Deputy Northern Development Authority was a basic School Teacher shocked her opponents after a landslide victory in a Simple Majority of last Tuesday’s parliamentary elections in the North East Region of Ghana.
The 54 year old Lariba Abudu is a Ghanaian politician and a member of parliament for walewale constituency in the North East Region of Ghana .
For her keen hard work, she was appointed by The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo, in accordance with the applicable laws to form part of the Deputy Chief Executive Officers of the Northern Development Authorities.
Constituency: Walewale
Region: North East
Occupation/profession: Politician
Parliamentary seat: Majority
Hometown: Tamale
Last Employment: Teacher
Religion: Muslim
Votes Obtained: 32,294 votes representing 51.21% of the total valid votes cast on the ticket of the NPP.
According to her ,she is very excited to serve under President Akuffo Addo in that she will be able to catapult development in her constituency and had since been grateful to the residents of walewale constituency for voting her as the Member of Parliament in the constituency.
The obvious slight rate of increase in the number of women elected to Parliament will be very significant to the strengthening of our democracy.
Therefore it is necessary to put in more efforts to encourage more women to contest in elections at both the local and national levels, for Ghana to attain the minimum UN recommended threshold of 30 per cent requirement that can result in women’s effective engagement in decision-making in the next decade.
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