Mr Haruna Iddrisu, Minority Leader, and Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamale South, has formally announced that he will seek re-election in 2020 to continue to represent the people of the area in the country’s legislature.
He said “I cherished the opportunity to have served you for these years and I will cherish some additional opportunity in terms of prolonging my service to the people of Ghana and Tamale South Constituency as MP. Therefore, come 2020, I will run formally as MP for Tamale South.”
He added that “So this should bring to rest all the speculation about Haruna’s political future. The other part of my future is in God’s hands.”
Mr Iddrisu announced his re-election bid on Friday when he inaugurated a rural electrification project at Tangni, a community in the Tamale South Constituency.
The extension of electricity to the Tangni community means that all communities in the Tamale South Constituency were now connected to the national grid, a pledge by the MP, which had been fulfilled.
Mr Iddrisu, who is currently serving his fourth consecutive term as MP for Tamale South, also served in three different Cabinet Ministerial portfolios as Minister for Communications, Trade and Industry, and Employment and Labour Relations from 2009 to January, 2017, and winning the 2020 Parliamentary elections will make him a fifth term MP.
He thanked the constituents saying “I hold the mandate to serve the people of Tamale South with humility and dignity and dedicated service. I want to use this opportunity to profoundly thank the people of Tamale South, they remain a tower of strength to me and unwavering support.”
He dared anyone wishing to challenge his re-election bid saying “Am sure any candidate within the NDC and without the NDC to the New Patriotic Party can only await a humiliating befitting defeat if they dare want to run for the seat but naturally, I am a consummate democrat, we are open to competition.”
Mr Iddrisu told young ones and others aspiring to be MPs that the NDC remained a party of opportunity and tomorrow should be their opportunity assuring that “I will do anything possible to groom and develop people even to take over from me in the foreseeable future as MP for the area.”
He announced that the NDC Parliamentary caucus had formally requested the National Executives of the NDC to consider early parliamentary primaries for party to consider nominations for all constituencies from April.
Source: GNA
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In the name of the almighty Allah may Haruna Iddrisu lose. Any serious democracy and not a pretend one like we have in Ghana would have seen this f-ra-u-d of a man kicked out of parliament for the many scandals he has been involved in. Didn't he get caught out fals1fying and inflating travel expenses when he was in charge of NYEP or a similar set up? Isn't the same Haruna Iddrisu involved in the cr1-m1-nal double pay saga and oh! wasn't he caught out by University of Ghana for plagiarising his Masters Degree? No wonder his boss JDM thinks Ghanaians have short memories and i agree with him that indeed we have. Currently in the UK a female MP Fiona Onasanya of Peterborough is facing calls for her to quit parliament for lying small about a bl==00d=dy speeding ticket and she definitely won't survive. We continuously entertain such cr-00------=ks such as Haruna, fat feeding him and his other compatriots with tax payers money. God save Ghana.
The Tamale south Mugabe..... Remember how the real Mugabe was ridiculed?
Naturally! What else are you equipped to do in life?Your people don't know any better so you will use your ill-gotten wealth to influence them.
Double salary man going for fifth term, there's know sensible and educated person in his constituency, hahahahaaa, ndc for you. Useleesss thieeeves calling themselves politicians
Is he one of Mahama's double salary thi.eves?