- Date of Birth:
- 1980-03-11
- Place of Birth:
- Ghana
Ali Maiga Halidu is a Ghanaian politician and member of the Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana representing the Dormaa West Constituency in the Brong-Ahafo Region on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party.
Halidu acquired his Bachelor's Degree at the University of Cape Coast; he then furthered his education with a Master of Philosophy at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom.
Halidu worked as a teaching assistant at the University of Cape Coast for a year and then he worked as a professional teacher with the Ghana Education Service for a year from 2006 to 2007. He became a regulatory officer for the foods and agriculture authority for 3 years.
He is currently a development consultant and a full-time politician. In the 2016 general elections, Halidu contested and won the parliamentary seat for the Dormaa West Constituency in the Brong-Ahafo Region, on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party.
He obtained 8,422 votes out of the 16,725 valid votes cast representing 50.88% of the votes.
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