Singer Pays Tribute to Late Vice President of Ghana, Alhaji Aliu Mahama

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On March 3rd, the 3rd Vice President of the 4th Republic was born. He was Ghana's first Muslim Vice-President. Born in Yendi, in the Northern Region of Ghana.  Yendi has a 2012 settlement population of 52,008 people. The overlord of the Dagbon Traditional Kingdom is the Ya-Na, whose court and administrative capital is at Yendi. Family and friends of the late Aliu Mahama are marked the fourth anniversary of his death today in Tamale..


Alhaji Aliu Mahama was indeed the most efficient hard working Vice president ever in the history of Ghana. As the first Northerner to be Vice President of Ghana for eight years in the political history of Ghana, The late Aliu Mahama was a highly disciplined man, lover of peace and development, philanthropist of high repute and conducted himself creditably as both Vice President and even as a private citizen.
 


Alhaji Aliu Mahama was a Ghanaian politician who was Vice-President of Ghana from 7 January 2001 to 7 January 2009. A member of the New Patriotic Party, he was a Dagomba by tribe. 

Aliu Mahama as a young man studied at the Government Secondary School in Tamale from 1960 to 1967 for his Ordinary and Advanced Level Certificates. He proceeded to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi from 1967 to 1971 where he obtained the B.Sc. in Building Technology.





The noble son of the North started his working career at the Bolgatanga regional office of the State Construction Corporation as an Engineer and contractor from 1972 to 1975. Aliu Mahama was promoted to Assistant Regional Manager and posted to the Koforidua Regional Office of the Corporation from 1975 to 1976. From June 1976 to August 1982, Aliu Mahama held the position of Regional Manager in charge of the Northern Region, Tamale.

Aliu Mahama successfully established his own civil engineering and general construction firm, LIDRA Limited, and became its Managing Director In 1982. He was Chairman of the Northern Regional Contractors Association from 1996 until the December 2000 elections.

Aliu Mahama was also an Alumnus of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). The noble son of the North obtained two certificates from the Institute in Project Planning and Management and in Leadership.

Aliu Mahama was a Councilor on the Yendi District Council and was the Chairman of the Economic Development Committee of the Tamale-Louisville Sister State Committee in 1978 and 1990 respectively

Aliu Mahama was a board member of several secondary schools in the Northern Region including the Tamale Polytechnic; he also served as a Board member of the Ghanaian Premier League side Real Tamale United, where he was a founding member.






16th November 2012 was the saddest day in the political history of not only Ghana but for Northerners, at the age of 66, Alhaji Aliu Mahama died from a heart-related condition and complications from a stroke. Alhaji Aliu Mahama almost 4 months after Ghanaian President John Atta Mills died.


That was after Alhaji Aliu Mahama two terms as Vice-President, and lost to Nana Akufo Addo on his bid to secure the New Patriotic Party's nomination for the 2008 presidential election. 

Nazz has released a new song titled One Africa, an inspiration and motivational song dedicated to all but especially young Africans.  One Africa. The Afro pop singer has dedicated this song to the Late Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama on his 4th Anniversary.

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