Amadou Cheiffou
Amadou Cheiffou ( born December 1, 1942 in Kornaka; Amadou also Cheffou ) is a Nigerien politician and aerospace engineer. After working for international aviation authorities he was Prime Minister of Niger from 1991 to 1993 and commander of the Nigerien armed forces. Since its founding in 2004, he is Chairman of the Social Democratic Party Alliance ( RSD Gaskiya ).
Life
Amadou Cheiffou belongs to the Fulani ethnic group. He is the younger brother of a Fulani village chiefs in Korahane. Cheiffou attended primary school in Dakoro and the National Lycée in Niamey, where he took off 1961 the Baccalauréat. He studied from 1961 to 1966 at the University of Dakar in Senegal. During this time he became involved in party politics in Senegal's Parti Africain pour l Independence ( PAI), was chairman of the section Dakar the Nigerien student representative Union of Scolaires of Nigeria (USN ) and Executive Secretary of the West African Students Union Union Générale des Etudiants de l' Afrique Occidentale ( UGEAO ). Cheiffou graduated in Dakar from having a license in natural sciences. He then studied in France, a scientific Maîtrise at the University of Toulouse where he graduated in 1967 and 1969, an engineering diploma in civil aviation at the École nationale de l' aviation civile received.
Cheiffou was from 1969 to 1985 for the African Civil Aviation Authority Agence pour la Sécurité de la Navigation Aérienne en Afrique et à Madagascar ( ASECNA ) operates. At first he was employed as a deputy commander of the airport Douala in Cameroon. From 1970 to 1975 he was a representative of the ASECNA in Niger. He took over in October 1970 the management of the Niamey International Airport and was from 1973 to 1974 Chairman of the Board of Airlines and Air Afrique Air Niger. In 1975 he moved to the ASECNA seat to Dakar, where until 1985 he most recently served as Deputy Director General of the Authority. Cheiffou then worked for the International Civil Aviation Organization in Dakar. He was initially the deputy representative, from 1989 the Representative for West and Central Africa.
In Niger, it came in the early 1990s after decades of one-party and military rule to a democratic transition. A September 1991 which meets from July National Conference, which brought together various representatives of civil society, took over power in the state to prepare for the transition to a free multi- party democracy. Amadou Cheiffou belonged to the National Conference as a substitute of the delegates of the Auslandsnigrer. On 26 October 1991, the National Conference elected him prime minister of a transitional government until the parliamentary elections of 1993 and the Supreme Commander of the Nigerien armed forces. Cheiffou sat down clear through against Oumarou Sidikou, favorites of the government camp, and five other candidates. The main reason for his choice was his political impartiality, as it was the previous regime under Seyni Kountché and Ali Saibou connected in any way. His main duties as head of government is to prepare the parliamentary and presidential elections in 1993 belonged. In the latter, he could not run because the previous state and government participation was prohibited. His term as Prime Minister ended on April 17, 1993, when was appointed by the Mahamadou Issoufou elections for prime minister.
Amadou Cheiffou yet returned in April 1993 to the management of the International Civil Aviation Organization to Dakar back. In Niger, he became a member of the Democratic and Social Rally ( CDS Rahama ), the party of President Mahamane Ousmane. When the CDS Rahama its candidate for the presidential elections of 1996 chose to let Cheiffou as opposition candidate to Ousmane up and had to admit defeat this. He worked then as Ousmane's campaign manager. The applicable as rigged presidential elections were won by Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara. At the party congress of the CDS Rahama in August 1999 Cheiffou tried unsuccessfully to prevail against Ousmane as a candidate for the 1999 presidential elections, but was elected deputy party chairman.
In 2003, the conflict escalated with the party leader Ousmane. Amadou Cheiffou left the party. He established himself as party chairman, with the Social Democratic Alliance ( RSD Gaskiya ), which achieved surprising success in the municipal elections in July 2004. Cheiffou ran for RSD Gaskiya in the presidential elections of 2004 and was 6.35 % of the vote, fourth of six candidates. In the subsequent parliamentary elections of 2004, he moved as an MP for the constituency of Maradi in the National Assembly. Mamadou Tandja President ( MNSD - Nassara ) appointed him in 2006 as President of the Nigerien Economic, Social and Cultural Council ( CESOC ). As Tandja in 2009 tried to get one in the constitution not foreseen third term as President, Cheiffou was one of his supporters. The RSD- Gaskiya one of the few opposition parties that are not boycotted the parliamentary elections of 2009. Cheiffou continue CESOC president, remained a member of parliament and also won a seat in the council of his birthplace Kornaka. As President Tandja was overthrown in February 2010, also Cheiffou lost all public offices. The elected in the presidential election of 2011 new Mahamadou Issoufou President appointed him despite his past as a supporter Mamadou Tandja in August 2011 to Médiateur de la République. In this office, equivalent to that of a state ombudsman, he was succeeded by Mamane Oumarou.