She holds an MBA in Marketing from the University of Ghana Business School and a Bachelor of Administration degree from Ghana the Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA).[3]
Politics
In January 2019, Alhassan contested the parliamentary seat for the Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency. She contested on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), and succeeded her late husband Emmanuel Boakye Agyarko.[4] She won the election with 68.80 per cent of the valid votes cast.[5][6] The other candidates, Kwasi Delali Brempong of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) polled 30.52 per cent, William Kofi Dowokpor of the Progressive People's Party (PPP) polled 0.58 per cent, and Clement Boadi of the Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG) polled 0.10 per cent.[7][8][9][10][11]
She successfully contested in the 2020 Ghanaian general election under the ticket of New Patriotic Party and won against Ghanaian celebrity and NDC candidate John Dumelo, polling 9,851 of the valid votes cast.[12][13][14][15] The most recent honors that Hon. Lydia Alhassan has received for her services to the country's development are the Ghana Parma Awards' Woman of Excellence Award from 2017 and Personality of the Year Award from 2021.[16]
In the 2024 Ghanaian general elections, Alhassan was defeated by John Dumelo with Dumelo polling 47,560 votes with her securing 39,214 votes.[17]
