Amadou Salifou

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Amadou Salifou (2015)

Amadou Salifou (* 1945 or 1946 ) is a Nigerien politician.

Life

Amadou Salifou belongs to the Zarma ethnic group . He comes from Goudel , a district of the capital Niamey . Salifou worked in banking and insurance.

For years he was a party member of the National Development Society Movement (MNSD-Nassara) and headed the Niamey party section. For the MNSD-Nassara he was elected three times as a member of the National Assembly. From 1995 to 1996 Salifou served as mayor ( préfet-président ) of Niamey. He was at the head of the Niamey municipal association from 2001 and lost this office in 2002 due to poor administration. He had not succeeded in ensuring the town hall was supplied with electricity and running water.

After President Mamadou Tandja was overthrown from the MNSD-Nassara in 2010 and Mahamadou Issoufou from the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS-Tarayya) was elected as the new President the following year, the MNSD-Nassara went into opposition, with him Amadou Salifou as a member of parliament. In August 2013, President Issoufou made prominent members of the MNSD-Nassara an offer to participate in the government and with this move achieved a split in the party. For example, the MNSD Nassara General Secretary Albadé Abouda became a minister in Issoufou's government, while the MNSD Nassara party leader Seini Oumarou remained in opposition. Amadou Salifou joined President Issoufou together with other MNSD Nassara MPs. On March 29, 2014, he and eight other MPs were therefore expelled from the MNSD-Nassara parliamentary group. As an independent MP, he was not allowed to join any other parliamentary group during the current period.

The President of the Nigerien parliament, Hama Amadou of the Nigerien Democratic Movement for an African Federation (MODEN-FA Lumana Africa), an opponent of President Issoufou, fled abroad at the end of August 2014 when he was accused of complicity in a child trafficking affair. Amadou Salifou was considered the President's favorite for Hama Amadou's successor. In the second attempt, after the Constitutional Court had declared the office vacant, the majority of MPs elected Salifou as President of the National Assembly on November 24, 2014.

Before the parliamentary elections on February 21, 2016 , Salifou joined the MNSD-Nassara secession Patriotic Movement for the Republic (MPR-Jamhuriya). He became chairman of the Niamey party section. In the parliamentary elections, however, he failed to return to the National Assembly. His successor as President of Parliament was Ousséini Tinni on March 25, 2016 . Salifou left the MPR-Jamhuriya party to become party leader of the Citizens' Alliance for the Republic (RCPR-As-Salam), the founding convention of which was held on February 23, 2020.

Web links

Commons : Amadou Salifou  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rémi Carayol: Niger: Amadou Salifou, le joker d'Issoufou. In: Jeuneafrique.com. December 2, 2014, accessed December 18, 2014 (French).
  2. ↑ a b c d Sia Kambou: Niger: Amadou Salifou élu président du Parlement. RFI, November 25, 2014, accessed December 18, 2014 (French).
  3. ↑ Historique. Ville de Niamey, August 15, 2016, accessed February 21, 2018 (French).
  4. ↑ Motion de Defiance - Le député Amadou Salifouveut -il devenir président de l'Assemblée nationale? In: Nigerdiaspora. September 13, 2013, accessed December 18, 2014 (French).
  5. ↑ Amadou Salifou, l'électron '' libre '! (No longer available online.) In: Niger Express. 2014, archived from the original on December 18, 2014 ; Retrieved December 18, 2014 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nigerexpress.info
  6. ^ Assemblée nationale: Conciliabules difficiles autour de la succession de Hama Amadou. In: Tamtam Info. September 7, 2014, accessed December 18, 2014 (French).
  7. ↑ Niger: le poste de président de l'Assemblée nationale déclaré vacant. RFI, November 21, 2014, accessed December 18, 2014 (French).
  8. ↑ MPR JAMHURIYA: Amadou Salifou désavoué par sa base qui plébiscite Hamidou Garba. In: ActuNiger. May 16, 2016, accessed January 22, 2018 (French).
  9. ↑ Tinni Ousseini élu nouveau président de l'Assemblée Nationale au Niger. In: VOA Africa. March 25, 2016, accessed March 31, 2016 (French).
  10. ↑ Lancement des activités du Rassemblement des Citoyens pour le République (RCPR-As-Salam). In: aNiamey.com. February 24, 2020, accessed on July 20, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Salifou, Amadou
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1945 or 1946