Mahamudu Bawumia
| Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia | |
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Vice President of Ghana (6th Vice President of the 4th Republic) |
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Assumed office 7 January 2017 |
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| President | Nana Akufo-Addo |
| Preceded by | Kwesi Amissah-Arthur |
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October 7, 1963 Tamale, Ghana |
| Political party | New Patriotic Party |
| Spouse(s) | Samira Ramadan |
| Alma mater | Oxford University |
| Occupation | Economist |
| Religion | Islam |
Mahamudu Bawumia (born 7 October 1963) is a Ghanaian economist and banker and the Vice President of Ghana. He assumed office on 7 January 2017. He was a Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana until his nomination as the vice presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in 2008, standing alongside presidential candidate Nana Akufo-Addo. He also ran as the NPP vice-presidential candidate in the 2012 general elections and was the lead witness for the petitioners in the 2012/2013 Presidential Election Petition which challenged the declaration of John Mahama as winner of the election. He is married to Samira Ramadan and they have four children.
He was born on October 7, 1963 in Tamale to Alhaji Mumuni Bawumia and Hajia Mariama Bawumia.
Bawumia's father Alhaji Mumuni Bawumia was a teacher, lawyer and politician, a Mamprugu Royal and Paramount Chief of the Kperiga Traditional Area at the time of his death in September 2002. He was a founding member of the Northern Peoples' Party alongside Chief S. D. Dombo, Chief Abeifa Karbo, Yakubu Tali, the Tolon Naa, and J. A. Braimah, Kabachewura. He served as Chairman of the Council of State from 1992 to 2000.
The Northern Peoples Party, together with the National Liberation Movement and other opposition political parties, later merged into the United Party, the forebear of the current New Patriotic Party.
Alhaji Bawumia served under various Ghanaian governments in various capacities, including member of the Northern Territories Council, the Gold Coast Legislative Assembly, a Member of Parliament of the First Republic, Northern Regional Minister, and Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
Alhaji Bawumia was in March 1999 awarded the highest national honour, membership of the Order of the Star of Ghana. He served as the Chairman of the council of State under the NDC government during the 4th republic under President J. J. Rawlings.
Mahamudu Bawumia’s mother, Hajia Mariama Bawumia, is a native of Kpasenkpe in the West Mamprusi District. She was one of the first northern female students to gain admission to Wesley Girls High School, Cape Coast.
Born into a large family, Mahamudu Bawumia was the twelfth of his father’s 18 children and the second of his mother’s five.
Mahamudu Bawumia attended the Sakasaka Primary school in Tamale, and gained admission to Tamale Secondary School in 1975. After graduating from Tamale Secondary School, he went to the United Kingdom where he studied banking and obtained the Chartered Institute of Bankers Diploma (ACIB).He was President of the Ghana United Nations Students’ Association (GUNSA) for 1981. He took a First Class Honours Degree in Economics at Buckingham University in 1987.
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