Born on May 25, 1966, Stephen Yakubu the Upper East regional minister-designate hails from Gotisaliga, a farming community in the Binduri district of Upper East region.
He is married with one child. The Upper East regional minister-minister who is a Christian, worships with an Adventist church.
Mr. Yakubu obtained a BSc in Planning from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Information Systems from Thames Valley University Slough, UK.
During the 2008 general election, Mr. Yakubu contested the Binduri seat which had always been enjoyed by the National Democratic Congress, under the ticket of the New Patriotic Party.
He became the first NPP candidate to have broken the monopoly of NDC in the constituency by winning the seat with 9,103 votes out of the 18,050 valid votes cast which amounts to 50.43% of all valid votes.
He was sworn-in as a Member of Parliament of the 5th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana, representing the people of Binduri Constituency on the 7th of January 2009 to the 6th of January 2013.
Mr. Yakubu who was a one-term MP, served in various roles in Parliament and outside of it.
He was later appointed as a Coordinator for settler communities leading to the 2016 elections, where he and others were tasked to take care of eighteen (18) settler communities, where the party had not been performing well.
They successfully achieved their mandate by snatching new seats in parliament as well as appreciation in the Presidential votes across the eighteen (18) constituencies.
As a way of appreciating his effort, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in July 2017 appointed him as Ghana’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco.
The former Member of Parliament for Binduri was again nominated in January, 2021 by President Akufo-Addo to head the Upper East Region if vetted and approved by Parliament.
Mr. Yakubu is into Development Planning, Architecture, and Quantity Surveying.
Source: A1Radioonline.com|Joshua Asaah|101.1Mhz
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