Former top EC official Alhaji Sulley passes on
Accra: Alhaji Amadu Sulley, the former Deputy Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), has passed away on Saturday, March 1, 2025.
He was reported to have passed away while observing the obligatory Ramadan fast.
He will be buried at the Madina cemetery on Sunday.
Alhaji Amadu Sulley served as the Vice Chairperson of the Electoral Commission from 2012 to 2018.
He was appointed as deputy chairperson of the Ghanaian Electoral Commission in 2012 by then president John Evans Atta-Mills.
He had previously served as the Director of Research Monitoring and Evaluation at the same commission until his promotion to the rank of deputy chairperson.
Sulley’s appointment to the rank of deputy chairperson was the first time a career electoral personnel had been appointed to that high rank.
He served as the deputy chairperson in charge of operations at the Electoral Commission of Ghana until his dismissal in June 2018 for allegedly illegally transferring votes during the 2016 Ghanaian general election.
Amadu Sulley had his elementary school education at Ghana National School (now Richard Akwei Memorial School) in Accra.
He attended Accra Academy and Opoku Ware School for the Ordinary level and Advanced level certificates, respectively.
He continued to the University of Ghana and studied for a diploma in statistics, obtained in 1985.
He obtained a postgraduate certificate and diploma in public administration at Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration in 1993 and 1995, respectively.
His project work was on the Ghanaian electoral system.
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