{{Short description|Ghanaian politician (born 1929)}} {{Use Ghanaian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Abdulai Yakubu | constituency_MP = Savelugu | parliament = Ghana | term_start = 1969 | term_end = 1972 | president = Edward Akufo-Addo | prime_minister = Kofi Abrefa Busia | birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1929|05|06}} | alma_mater = Tamale Middle Boarding School | occupation = Traditional ruler and a Farmer }}
'''Abdulai Yakubu''' (born 6 May 1929) is a Ghanaian politician and member of the first parliament of the second republic of Ghana representing Savelugu constituency in the Northern Region of Ghana under the membership of the National Alliance Liberals (NAL)<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Ghana Parliamentary Register 1969-70.|publisher=Office of the National Assembly, Accra.|year=1969|page=315}}</ref>
== Early life and education == Abdulai was born on 6 May 1929 and lived in Yendi a town in Tamale in the Northern Region of Ghana.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=March, 2002|first=Ghana Commission of Inquiry into the Yendi Disturbances of 25th-27th|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zCfpvMYDPYMC&q=Abdulai+Yakubu|title=The Commission of Inquiry (Yendi Events): C.I.36/2002 : Wuaku Commission|date=2002|publisher=Republic of Ghana|language=en}}</ref> He attended Tamale Middle Boarding School, where he obtained a Middle School Leaving Certificate and later served as a Traditional ruler and a Farmer before going into Parliament.
== Politics == Yakubu began his political career in 1969, when he became the parliamentary candidate for the NAL to represent his constituency in the Northern Region of Ghana prior to the commencement of the 1969 Ghanaian parliamentary election.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hCH8wK8ACDIC&q=Abdulai+Yakubu|title=Ghana Year Book|date=1971|publisher=Daily Graphic|language=en}}</ref>
Yakubu was sworn into the First Parliament of the Second Republic of Ghana on 1 October 1969, after being pronounced winner at the 1969 Ghanaian election held on 26 August 1969. His tenure of office as a member of parliament ended on 13 January 1972.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Assembly|first=Ghana National|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9t8VAQAAMAAJ&q=Abdulai+Yakubu|title=Parliamentary Debates: Official Report|date=1970|publisher=Ghana Publishing Corporation|language=en}}</ref>
== Personal life == Yakubu was a Muslim.<ref name=":0" />
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