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Abdulahi Bala Adamu was elected Senator for the Taraba North constituency of
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at the start of the
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, running on the
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(PDP) platform. He took office on 29 May 1999. Adamu was Secretary to the Taraba State Government between 1994 and 1997. He was a founding member of the All People's Party (APP) in Taraba State, but moved to the PDP on which ticket he successfully contested the 1999 election for the Taraba North Senate seat. After taking his seat in the Senate in June 1999, he was appointed to committees on Rules & Procedures, Security & Intelligence, Judiciary, Science & Technology (vice chairman), Water Resources and Information (vice chairman). By August 2002 Adamu had begun to campaign to be elected Governor of Taraba State. However, the incumbent governor
Jolly Nyame Jolly Tavoro Nyame (born 25 December 1955) in Zing Local Government Area of present-day Taraba State) was Governor of Taraba State in Nigeria from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2007. He also served as governor of the state from January 1992 to November ...
won by a landslide. In May 2009 the FCT Minister, Senator Muhammad Adamu Aliero, swore in Adamu as mandate secretary for Social Development in the
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