He was a member of the National Democratic Congress and served as deputy Minister of Finance during the Jerry John Rawlings government.
[3] He later furthered his education at the University of Wales, UK on a scholarship completing with a master's degree in Development Economics in 1978.
[2][3] Selormey worked with UNESCO in Paris for a short period and later joined the Ghana Civil Service as a graduate trainee in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning in 1971.
[1][2] In 1993, he was co-opted into the NDC/NCP coalition Government and appointed by Jerry John Rawlings to serve as deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Planning.
He was amongst the first Tarcisians of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Accra in the 1950s along with future head of state of Ghana Jerry John Rawlings who he served in his government.