Umar Farouk Aliu Mahama

Mahama attended Sakasaka Presby Experimental School and Achimota schools for his basic education, followed by Prempeh College for secondary school in Kumasi. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). Additionally, he holds a master's degree in Supply Chain Management from Coventry University in the UK and is a certified International Supply Chain Professional from the International Purchasing and Supply Chain Management Institute-USA.He was born on 27 April 1981.

In December 2020, Mahama emerged victorious in the Yendi Constituency parliamentary elections with 40,624 votes, defeating Alhassan Abdul Fatawu of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), who received 24,755 votes. He succeeded Mohammed Habib Tijani, the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, who had held the seat for the New Patriotic Party since 2012 but chose not to seek re-election in the 2020 polls.

He is the son of the late Aliu Mahama, a Ghanaian politician and former vice president, and Hajia Ramatu Mahama, with Alhaji Imoro Egala as his maternal grandfather.