Frank Abdulai Ayariga

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Hon
Frank Asumah Abdulai Ayariga
Member of the Ghana Parliament
for Bawku
In office
Sep 1979 Dec 1981
Personal details
Nationality Ghanaian
Political party People's National Party
SpouseAnatu Ayariga
Relations Hassan Ayariga
Mahama Ayariga
Children11
Profession Politician

Frank Asumah Abdulai Ayariga was the first Member of Parliament for Bawku during the Third Republic of Ghana.

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Politics

Ayariga was a member of the People's National Party which was also formed the government in power between 1979 and 1981. Following the overthrow of Hilla Limann's government by the Jerry Rawlings-led Provisional National Defence Council on 31 December 1981, Ayariga left for exile in Nigeria. He stayed there for six years, only returning to Ghana in 1987 after he had been cleared of corruption. [1] [2]

Family

Ayariga's family hails from Tinsungo in Bawku in the Upper East Region of Ghana. He was also a member of the Kusasi Royal Family. He was married to Anatu Ayariga. He had eleven children. [1]

His third child, Hassan Ayariga was the presidential candidate for the People's National Convention in the Ghanaian presidential election in December 2012. [3] Mahama Ayariga, a younger son of his 2nd Wife is the MP for Bawku and a former Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry and later Education. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Hassan Abdulai Ayariga". Election Results. Daily Graphic Online. Archived from the original on 9 September 2013. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
  2. "Hassan Ayariga's Bio". Hassan Ayariga. Archived from the original on 21 April 2012. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
  3. "Presidential candidates". Electoral Commission of Ghana. Archived from the original on 20 July 2014. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
  4. "President Mills reshuffles Deputy Ministers, appoints new DCEs". News. Ghana Broadcasting Corporation . Retrieved 23 January 2013.
Parliament of Ghana
New title MP for Bawku
1979 1981
parliament dissolved after coup