Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A zaben 'yan majalisa na watan Fabrairun 1993, Salifou ya kasance dan takarar jam'iyyarsa, kungiyar Union of Democratic and Progressive Patriots (UPDP-Chamoua), a mazabar Zinder, kuma an zabe shi a majalisar kasa. Kamar Firayim Minista Ahmadou Cheiffou, taron kasa ya hana shi tsayawa takara a zaben shugaban kasa
An gudanar da shi daga baya a cikin wannan watan saboda matsayinsa na Shugaban Babban Majalisar Jamhuriyar. Bayan zaben, UPDP, wanda Salifou ya jagoranta, ya zama wani bangare na adawa tare da National Movement for the Development of Society (MNSD). Salifou ya halarci zanga-zangar adawa a ranar 16 ga Afrilu, 1994, kuma an kama shi tare da wasu 90, ciki har da shugaban MNSD Tandja Mamadou.