Amadou Salifou

Amadou Salifou is a Nigerien politician who was President of the National Assembly of Niger from 2014 to 2016.

Amadou Salifou
Salifou in 2015
President of the National Assembly
In office
24 November 2014 – 25 March 2016
Preceded byHama Amadou,
Daouda Marté (Acting)
Succeeded byOusseini Tinni
Personal details
Political partyNational Movement for the Development of Society (until 2013), Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (since 2013)

Life and career

Salifou is a Zarma from the Niamey suburb of Goudel.[1] He was elected to the National Assembly three times. Salifou also served twice as president of the council of Niamey.[2]

Salifou was suspended from the National Movement for the Development of Society in 2013 for supporting Nigerien President Mahamadou Issoufou.[3] On 24 November 2014, four days after Hama Amadou was removed from his post as President of the National Assembly by the Constitutional Court, Salifou was elected to replace Amadou; he received 71 out of 113 votes from the deputies of the National Assembly.[2]

Salifou lost his seat in the 2016 general election. He was replaced as President of the National Assembly by Ousseini Tinni on 25 March 2016.[4]

References
  1. Rémi Carayol (2 December 2014). "Niger : Amadou Salifou, le joker d'Issoufou" (in French). Jeune Afrique. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
  2. "Niger: Amadou Salifou élu président du Parlement" (in French). Radio France Internationale. 25 November 2014. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
  3. Africa Yearbook Volume 11: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2014. BRILL. 8 October 2015. pp. 125–. ISBN 978-90-04-30505-2.
  4. "Ousseini Tinni, député du PNDS, nouveau président de l'Assemblée nationale du Niger" (in French). ActuNiger. 25 March 2016. Retrieved 26 March 2016.


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