14 Facts About Mahama Iddrisu

Alhaji Mahama Iddrisu is a Ghanaian politician who was a member of the Provisional National Defence Council and a former Minister for Defence.

Mahama Iddrisu is a founding member of the National Democratic Congress.

Mahama Iddrisu is the longest-serving Minister of Defence of Ghana, serving from 1985 to 1999, for 14 years.

Alhaji Mahama Iddrisu is a native of Wa, the capital town of the Upper West Region of Ghana.

Mahama Iddrisu had his secondary school education at Tamale Secondary School, in Tamale in the Northern Region of Ghana.

Mahama Iddrisu later joined Provisional National Defence Council under the leadership of Jerry John Rawlings who served as the chairman and head of state.

Under the PNDC, Mahama Iddrisu was the Secretary of Transport and Communications from 1983 to 1987.

Mahama Iddrisu served as the Secretary of Defence from 1985 to 1993 when the council was dissolved.

When constitutional government was restored in 1993 under the National Democratic Congress, Mahama Iddrisu was appointed as the Minister of Defence, a position he held until 1999.

Ahead of the 2008 Ghanaian general election, Mahama Iddrisu declared his intention and stood for the NDC's presidential elections in 2006, he stood against then former Vice President John Evans Atta Mills, former minister Ekwow Spio-Garbrah and NDC financier Eddie Annan.

Mahama Iddrisu is a founding member of the National Democratic Congress when it was formed in 1992 after the Provisional National Defence Council was dissolved ahead of the country's return to constitutional rule.

Mahama Iddrisu has served in several capacities within the party since its inception.

Mahama Iddrisu served as the Vice chairman of the council of elders of the NDC over the years, with the party's founder Jerry John Rawlings serving as the chairman.

Mahama Iddrisu is the brother in law of Alex Mould, a former chief executive officer of Ghana National Petroleum Corporation.