Mary Salifu Boforo

Mary Salifu Boforo (25 February 1951 – 13 December 2025) was a Ghanaian politician who was a Member of Parliament for the Savelugu constituency in the Northern Region. She served as an MP from 1996 until 2017, but lost out in the primaries to contest the 2016 election.

Early life Mary Salifu Boforo was born on 25 February 1951 in Savelugu, in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast. Before becoming a member of parliament, she owned a bakery and farming business; and also worked in the banking industry. She had vocational training at National Vocational Training Institute in 1972.

Political life From January 1997, Boforo was the Member of Parliament for the Savelugu constituency. In 2014, she became First Deputy Majority Chief Whip. She was the longest serving Member of Parliament, but in 2016 while attempting to be selected for her constituency for the sixth time, she lost in the primary vote to Alhassan Abdulai Red. This meant that she left Parliament in 2017. She commented after the vote that this could have the effect of suppressing the views of women in the Northern Region.