[1][2] He took over from Ahaji Mohammed Haroon also of the National Democratic Congress who represented the constituency in the first parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana.
[3] Ibrahim lost his seat to Alhaji Abubakari Sumani in the subsequent elections of 2000.
[1] In 2003, Adam, Kwame Peprah, former Minister for Finance in the Rawlings government and George Yankey, a former Director of Legal Sector, Private and Financial Institutions were jailed by an Accra Fast Track High Court for causing financial loss to the state.
This follows the conviction of Juliet Cotton an American citizen in the United States, president of the Quality Grain Company Ghana Limited for squandering half of the 18 million dollars loaned to her to set up a rice project in Ghana.
[9] A valuation authorised by the NPP government in 2006 indicated that although the project had been lying idle, there had been no financial loss following the valuation of the assets which seems to agree with the defence Adam and others made that if valued correctly, there had been no loss.