Alhaji Abdulai Salifu

Salifu was elected as the member of parliament for the Tolon constituency in the 2000 Ghanaian general elections.[3] He was elected on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress.[3] His constituency was a part of the 18 parliamentary seats out of 23 seats won by the National Democratic Congress in that election for the Northern Region.[4][5][6] The National Democratic Congress won a minority total of 92 parliamentary seats out of 200 seats in the 3rd parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana.[4] He was elected with 11,740 votes out of 24,690 total valid votes cast. This was equivalent to 49.3% of the total valid votes cast.[7] He was elected over Alhassan A. Baako of the New Patriotic Party, Samson Hussein Salifu of the Convention People's Party, Mohammadu N. Togmah of the People's National Convention and Adam Alhassan of the United Ghana Movement.[7][8] These obtained 8,701, 2,751, 420 and 208 votes respectively out of the total valid votes cast. These were equivalent to 36.5%, 11.5%, 1.8% and 0.9% respectively of total valid votes cast.[7][9]

Salifu also represented his constituency in the 2nd parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana. He was elected on 7 January 1997 after emerging winner at the 1996 Ghanaian General Elections. He defeated Alhassan Abukari Baako of the New Patriotic Party by obtaining 45.00% of the total votes cast whilst his counterpart obtained 32.40%.

In 2009,Salifu was appointed by President John Evans Atta Mills as Ghana's Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.[10][11]