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Ibrahim Mahama-(Lawyer Ibrahim Mahama) He is a Ghanaian Lawyer who was born in 1936 in Tibung, a village under the Kumbungu district in the Northern Region of Ghana. He went to Savelugu Local Council Primary School in 1951 at the age of fifteen years. After spending only three years to complete his primaryschool education, he proceeded to Dagomba District Council Middle School at Yendi in 1954. he proceeded to the then Government Secondry School Tamale from 1956 to 1962. In 1962, he had his tertiary education at the University of Ghana. he read law and received his LLB degree in 1965. He officially became a lawyer in 1966. From 1967-1968, the commission of forestry appointed him as a commissioner, he was also the commissioner for Information in the Government and National Liberation council. He was a member of parliament from 1969 to 1972. In 1979, he stood as the flagbearer for the Social Democratic Front to ran as a president of Ghana. He is an active politician of the Nkrumah tradition and a private legal practitioner of long standing. Reference; From the book ethnic Conflicts in Northern Ghana by Ibrahim Mahama