Adams Abdul Salam

Adams Abdul-Salam (born on Monday, 16 December 1985) is a Ghanaian politician who is a member of the National Democratic Congress. He is the member of Parliament for the New Edubease Constituency in the Ashanti region.

Early life and education Adams Abdul-Salam was born in New Edubiase in Ashanti Region on 16 December 1985. He attended Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana where he completed with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political studies in 2009. Abdul-Salam holds a master's degree in Rural Development with emphasis on Rural Policy from Brandon University, Canada, completing in 2016.

Career

Early career Abdul-Salam served as a Rural Policy Officer at the Rural Development Institute, Canada and later as a Research Associate Rural Community and Mental Health Lab, Brandon University Canada.

Football administration He also served as an Administrative Officer at New Edubiase United Football Club.

Politics

Parliamentary bid Abdul-Salam won the parliamentary bid to represent the National Democratic Congress for the New Edubease Constituency ahead of the 2020 elections in August 2019 after he went unopposed.

In December 2020, He won the New Edubease Constituency in the parliamentary elections. He won by polling 19,961 votes representing 52.4% against his closest opponent the incumbent member of parliament, George Boahen Oduro of the New Patriotic Party who obtained 17,913 votes representing 47.0% of the votes cast. The New Edubease seat was one of the seats that was taken away from the National Democratic Congress by the New Patriotic Party in the 2016 Parliamentary Elections but they couldn't retain it for an extra 4 years. He is a Bissa by tribe.

Philanthropy In May 2022, he presented over 4,500 pieces of hand sanitizers to the people of New Edubiase Constituency during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana.