Muhammad Adamu Aliero (born 1 January 1957) was
governor
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of
Kebbi State
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in
Nigeria
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from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2007. He is a member of the
People's Democratic Party People's Democratic Party or ''variant thereof'', could refer to:
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(PDP).
He became
Senator
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for Kebbi Central from June 5, 2007 till December 18, 2008.
Aliero was appointed
Minister of the
Federal Capital Territory
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by
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Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
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in December 2008.
He left office in March 2010 when
Acting President
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Goodluck Jonathan
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dissolved his cabinet.
Personal life
He has three wives Maimuna, Zainab and Aaliyah. He is the father of 10 children 9 boys 1 girl. Their names are Fatima, Sadiq, Mustapha, Abdulazziz Aliyu, Umar, Adamu, Khalil, Abubakar, and Ahmed. He is currently living in Abuja.
Early life
Born in
Aliero
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, Aliero Local Government Area of Kebbi State (then part of the
Northern Region), Adamu received his primary education at an
Islamic
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school. His elementary education commenced in 1965 at Aliero Town Planning School. He then attended the Government Secondary School in
Koko and graduated in 1976.
This was followed by admission into the School of Basic Studies at
Ahmadu Bello University
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, where he enrolled in the Interim Joint Matriculation Board
IJMB certificate program. He began undergraduate studies in 1977 and graduated with a
Bachelor of Science
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degree in
political science
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in 1980.
Early career
In 1981, Aliero began his working career as an
administrative officer at the
College of Education
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in
Sokoto
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and joined the
Nigeria Immigration Service
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in the same year. In 1997, he voluntarily resigned from the Customs and Excise Service and went into the
private business
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sector, dealing in
export and import trade.
Political career
His political career began in 1998 when, running on the platform of the now defunct
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(UNCP), he contested and won a
Senate
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seat representing the Kebbi Central
constituency
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. The results of the election annulled soon after they were announced. Following the death of
military dictator Sani Abacha
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and a brief period of transition, new elections were held. Aliero, now representing the
All People's Party (APP), contested and won the Kebbi State gubernatorial election. He was sworn in on 29 May 1999.
Aliero was re-elected in 2003 for a second four-year term and was one of only four incumbent ANPP (the APP was later renamed All Nigeria People's Party due to a factional split) governors to maintain their positions.
Aliero left the ANPP and joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in February 2007. He contested the April 2007 general elections for the Senate and won under the banner of the PDP. He is currently the member representing Kebbi Central Senatorial District in the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
He has been switching from one party to the other. For example, he re-decamped to PDP after spending about a year in CPC in early 2012. He later moved from PDP to APC in 2014. He and his some of his close associates since 1999, like Sani Zauro, who was also former state chairman of defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) board of trustees (BoT) in Kebbi State also quit PDP for APC.
See also
*
List of Governors of Kebbi State
References
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Living people
1959 births
Governors of Kebbi State
Ministers of the Federal Capital Territory (Nigeria)
United Nigeria Congress Party politicians
All People's Party (Nigeria) politicians
All Nigeria Peoples Party politicians
Peoples Democratic Party members of the Senate (Nigeria)
Federal ministers of Nigeria
21st-century Nigerian politicians
Ahmadu Bello University alumni