The Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Ghana’s downstream petroleum regulator, Alhassan Tampuli Suleman, who contested for the Gushegu parliamentary seat in the Northern Region on the ticket of the governing party, New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the December 7, 2020, general elections, has won.
Mr. Tampuli polled a total vote of 30,401 against his closest contender, Mohammed Yussif Malimali of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), who polled 28,055 votes.
Out of the 58,706 total valid votes cast, 1,789 votes were rejected.
Alhassan Tampuli will be taking over from the NDC’s Kwesi Thomas Nassan who occupied the seat in 2016.
Born in 1977, Hassan Tampuli is a Ghanaian public administrator, lawyer and energy expert.
He is an alumnus of the University of Ghana and the Ghana School of Law.
Source: www.energynewsafrica.com
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