The mother of Ghana’s Vice President Mahamadu Bawumia has died following some shot illeness.
Hajia Mariama Bawumia sad demise happened in the early hours of the mornng.
The announcement was made this morning by a member of the Western Regional NPP communication team Malik Botwe who was a panelist Adzekye Mu Nsem on Spice 91.9.
The message he shared reads.
“Vice President H.E Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has this morning lost his mum. She had been unwell and hospitalized over the past few weeks. May Allah admit her to Jannah
Inalillahi wa ina ilaihi raji’un”
Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia is an economist and a banker. He was born on October 7, 1963 in Tamale to the late Alhaji Mumuni Bawumia, former Chairman of the Council of State (1992–2000) and Hajia Mariama Bawumia.
He was born into a large family and the 12th of his father’s 18 children and the second of his mother’s five children. His father was a teacher, lawyer and politician and a Mamprugu Royal and Paramount Chief of Kperiga in the Northern Region.
Dr Bawumia is married to Samira Ramadan Bawumia, the only daughter of Alhaji Ahmed Ramadan, the former PNC National Chairman with three children.
He attended the Sakasaka Primary School in Tamale, and gained admission to the Tamale Secondary School in 1975. He was President of the Ghana United Nations Students’ Association (GUNSA) in 1981.
After his second cycle education, he went to the United Kingdom where he studied banking and obtained the Chartered Institute of Bankers Diploma (ACIB). He obtained a First Class Honours Degree in Economics from Buckingham University in 1987. He then obtained a master’s degree in Economics at Lincoln College, Oxford, and obtained a Ph.D. in Economics at the Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1995.
His areas of specialisation include Macroeconomics, International Economics, Development Economics and Monetary Policy. .
In the 2016 elections, the NPP emerged victorious with Dr Bawumia as the running mate and took five parliamentary seats in the Upper West Region for the first time and the Party also increased its presidential votes significantly in the Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions.
