Academician Prof. Alidu Seidu to represent NDC in upcoming Tamale Central by-election
Tamale: Professor Alidu Seidu, a Muslim academician, has won the National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary primaries for the upcoming Tamale Central by-election.
Should he win the upcoming election, Dr Seidu will replace the late Dr Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed, NDC member of Parliament for the constituency, who was a victim of a helicopter crash that claimed the lives of eight persons in August this year.
He secured 840 votes to defeat 11 other contenders.
At the end of the exercise, a total of 1,511 votes were cast, with one rejected ballot recorded.
His closest contender was Abdul Hanan Gundadoo, a former Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Tamale who polled 526 votes.
Other contenders were Dr Seidu Mohammed Fiter, a lecturer at the University for Development Studies (UDS); Mariama Naama Salifu, a diplomat; Dr Aliu Abdul Hamid, a civil engineer; Prof. Razak Abubakari, a senior lecturer at Tamale Technical University; Alhaji Alhassan Nbalba, former chairman of the NDC-UK/Ireland chapter; and Dr Rahman Abdul Rashid.
The rest were Sadat Harun Alhassan, a lawyer; Alhassan Osman Gomda, an entrepreneur; Hajia Shamima Yakubu, NDC’s Northern Regional Treasurer; and Hajia Muliaka Sualisu.
Professor Alidu, the Head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Ghana, was an Associate Professor at the department and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Asian Studies at the University of Ghana.
He was a Donahue Institute Scholar on United States’ Political Thought at the University of Massachusetts in 2014 and a visiting lecturer to twelve Master of Research and Public Policy (MRPP) universities in Africa, including the University of Lagos, University of Ibadan, University of Dar-es-Salam, University of Nairobi and the University of Botswana.
He was a Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) fellow on Parliaments and Democracy in Africa.
He has worked closely with and for numerous policy think tanks, including the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) based in Nairobi, Kenya and the Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen based in the Netherlands.
Prof Seidu has also work with the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Sussex; the Institute for Democratic Governance; the Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung; the United Nations Development Programme; the Varieties of Democracy Project based at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden; the Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College; the German-African Governance Partnership Organisation; and the Social Science Research Council based in New York.
He has published widely on his subject area, with his papers appearing in Peace Review, Criminal Justice Studies, Transitional Justice Review, Journal of African Political Economy and Development, Contemporary Journal of African Development and Ghana Studies.
His research interests include transitional justice policies and modalities; traditional reconciliation mechanisms and conflict resolution; civil society and democratisation; the political economy of Africa; and the political economy of social protection policy in Africa, among others.
He attained a Bachelor of Arts Honours in political science from the University of Ghana in July 2004 and later pursued a Master of Science in Development Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science in the UK, which he completed in the year 2006.
A year after completing his MSc, he started his Doctor of Philosophy at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, and completed it in 2010.
He was recently appointed by the government as the Executive Secretary of the Water Resources Commission.
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