Farouk Aliu Mahama, son of late former Vice President of Ghana, Alhaji Aliu Mahama, has won the Yendi parliamentary seat for the New Patriotic Party.
Farouk Mahama won the seat with 40,624 votes. His main contender, Alhassan Abdul Fatawu of the opposition National Democratic Congress also garnered 24,755 votes.
Prior to the election on December 7, 2020, the MP-elect predicted that he would win 80% of the total votes.
Farouk Aliu Mahama will be taking over the position from Alhaji Mohammed Habib Tijani who is also the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Alhaji Mohammed Habib Tijani has been the MP of Yendi since 2012.
