Frank Asumah Abdulai Ayariga was the first Member of Parliament for Bawku during the Third Republic of Ghana.
Ayariga was a member of the People's National Party which was also formed the government in power between 1979 and 1981.
Following the overthrow of Hilla Limann's government by the Jerry Rawlings-led Provisional National Defence Council on 31 December 1981, Ayariga left for exile in Nigeria.
[1][2] Ayariga's family hails from Tinsungo in Bawku in the Upper East Region of Ghana.
[3] Mahama Ayariga, a younger son of his 2nd Wife is the MP for Bawku and a former Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry and later Education.