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Frank Abdulai Ayariga

Ghanaian politician

Field	Value
honorific-prefix	Hon
name	Frank Asumah Abdulai Ayariga
constituency_MP	Bawku
parliament	Ghana
majority
term_start	Sep 1979
term_end	Dec 1981
predecessor
successor
birth_date
death_date
nationality	Ghanaian
party	People's National Party
otherparty
spouse	Anatu Ayariga
partner
relations	Hassan Ayariga
Mahama Ayariga
children	11
profession	Politician

|honorific-prefix = Hon |honorific-suffix = Mahama Ayariga

Frank Asumah Abdulai Ayariga was the first Member of Parliament for Bawku during the Third Republic of Ghana.

Politics

Ayariga was a member of the People's National Party which was also formed the government in power between 1979 and 1981. Following the overthrow of Hilla Limann's government by the Jerry Rawlings-led Provisional National Defence Council on 31 December 1981, Ayariga left for exile in Nigeria. He stayed there for six years, only returning to Ghana in 1987 after he had been cleared of corruption.

Family

Ayariga's family hails from Tinsungo in Bawku in the Upper East Region of Ghana. He was also a member of the Kusasi Royal Family. He was married to Anatu Ayariga. He had eleven children.

His third child, Hassan Ayariga was the presidential candidate for the People's National Convention in the Ghanaian presidential election in December 2012. Mahama Ayariga, a younger son of his 2nd Wife is the MP for Bawku and a former Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry and later Education.

References

"Hassan Ayariga's Bio". [[Ayariga Hassan.
"Hassan Abdulai Ayariga". Daily Graphic Online.
"Presidential candidates". [[Electoral Commission of Ghana]].
"President Mills reshuffles Deputy Ministers, appoints new DCEs". [[Ghana Broadcasting Corporation]].

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