BAWKU NPP CHAIRMAN PASSES AWAY (PAGE 13, JAN 17, 2011)

THE New Patriotic Party (NPP) and its followers in the Bawku Municipality and other people in the Upper East Region are mourning the death of the Bawku Constituency Chairman of the party, Alhaji Abdul Malik Imoro Salifu.
Alhaji Salifu, 50, died in his home in Bawku on Saturday, January 15, 2011. He left behind five children and a wife.
Some sympathisers interviewed in Bawku said the incident had come as a big surprise because they had seen him hale and hearty the previous day.
Alhaji Salifu was popularly referred to as “Bawku Governor” by many of the youth in the area, probably because of his “majestic” posture and appearance at public functions and his ability to attain his objectives, no matter the situation or obstacles.
The late Alhaji spent most of his adult life in London doing business and returned home to settle, when his father, Imoro Salifu, died in 2002.
His father was a regional commissioner in the Third Republic under Dr Hilla Liman’s Administration from 1979 to 1981.
He later became the Upper East Regional Chairman of the NPP from 1992 till he died in 2002.
The MP for Bawku Central, Mr. Adamu Dramani Sekande, in a telephone interview, expressed shock at the death of the constituency chairman of the NPP.
He praised Alhaji Malik for his leadership role in the branch of the party in the area.
Alahji Malik Salifu has since been buried in line with Islamic custom.