Bukar Abba Ibrahim (1949)
was
governor
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of
Yobe State
Yobe is a state located in northeastern Nigeria. A mainly agricultural state, it was created on 27 August 1991. Yobe State was carved out of Borno State. The capital of Yobe State is Damaturu; and it's largest and most populated city is Potisku ...
in
Nigeria
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from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2007. He also served as governor of the state from January 1992 to November 1993. He is a member of the
All Nigeria People's Party
The All Nigeria Peoples Party ( abbr. ANPP) was a political party in Nigeria.
Under the leadership of Late Chief Edwin Ume-Ezeoke who was its vice presidential candidate to General Muhammadu Buhari in the 2007 presidential elections. The party ...
(ANPP).
Background
Ibrahim began attending primary school in 1957. In 1965, he proceeded to Government College in
Maiduguri
Maiduguri is the capital and the largest city of Borno State
Borno State is a state in the North-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria, bordered by Yobe to the west, Gombe to the southwest, and Adamawa to the south while its eastern border form ...
. After taking the West African School Certificate Examination in 1970, he was admitted to
Ahmadu Bello University
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in 1972 where he obtained his
Bachelor of Science
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The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University of ...
degree in Quantity
Surveying
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in 1975. Thereafter, he undertook post-graduate professional training in the
United Kingdom
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from 1981 to 1982, which led to his qualification as an associate member of the Nigeria Institute of
Quantity Surveyors.
From 1985 to 1988, he worked as a
civil servant
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in
Borno State
Borno State is a state in the North-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria, bordered by Yobe to the west, Gombe to the southwest, and Adamawa to the south while its eastern border forms part of the national border with Cameroon, its northern border ...
eventually becoming Commissioner of Works.
Ibrahim, a
Muslim
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, is married to three wives: Hajiya (Dr) Maryam Abba Ibrahim, Hajiya Aishatu Ibrahim and Hajiya Khadijat Ibrahim.
Gubernatorial career
In December 1991, a few months after Yobe State was created, Ibrahim contested and won the gubernatorial election under the banner of the
Social Democratic Party
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Active parties
Fo ...
(SDP). He held that position until November 1993, when the military took control of government.
Nigeria transitioned from military to civilian rule beginning in late 1998. Gubernatorial elections were held in January 1999 and Ibrahim was again elected governor, this time under the banner of the
All People's Party (APP), and took office on 29 May 1999. The APP was later renamed All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP) due to a factional split. He was re-elected in 2003 for a second four-year term and was one of only four incumbent ANPP governors to maintain their positions.
During his first term, on 5 August 1993 Ibrahim split the state's four emirates into 13. This change was reversed by the military regime of
Sani Abacha
Sani Abacha (20 September 1943 – 8 June 1998) was a Nigerian military officer and politician who ruled as the military head of state of Nigeria from 1993 until his death in 1998. He seized power on 17 November 1993 in the last successful c ...
. In his second term after the return to democracy, on 6 January 2000, he re-implemented the new emirates, adding
Ngazargamu
Ngazargamu, Birni Ngazargamu, Birnin Gazargamu, Gazargamo or N'gazargamu, was the capital of the Bornu Empire from ca. 1460 to 1809. Situated west of Lake Chad in the Yobe State of modern Nigeria, the remains of the former capital city are still v ...
,
Gujba,
Nguru Nguru may refer to:
* Pila Nguru, an aboriginal people of Australia
* Nguru (flute), a small Māori nose flute from New Zealand
* Nguru, Nigeria, a town and LGA in Yobe State
* Hadejia-Nguru wetlands, northern Nigeria
* Nguru Lake, a lake whic ...
,
Tikau,
Pataskum, Yusufari, Gudi,
Fune
Fune is a Local Government Area in Yobe State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Damagum in the southwest of the area on the A3 highway at. It has an area of 4,948 km and a population of 300,760 at the 2006 census. The postal co ...
and Jajere.
The
Emir of Fika, Muhammadu Abali, protested at the break-up of his emirate and took the government to court, but eventually accepted the change.
Senatorial career
In 2007, he was elected to the Senate for the Yobe East constituency. He ran for re-election in the 9 April 2011 Senatorial contest for Yobe East on the ANPP platform, and won with 115,763 votes against former Senator
Lawan Jalo Zarami of the
People's Democratic Party People's Democratic Party or ''variant thereof'', could refer to:
* People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
*People's Democratic Party (Belize)
*People's Democratic Party (Bhutan)
*People's Democratic Party (Chile)
* People's Democratic Party (Dom ...
(PDP), who gained 67,438 votes.
References
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1949 births
Living people
Governors of Yobe State
Members of the Senate (Nigeria)
All People's Party (Nigeria) politicians
Social Democratic Party (Nigeria) politicians
All Nigeria Peoples Party politicians
21st-century Nigerian politicians
Ahmadu Bello University alumni
All Progressives Congress politicians
Nigerian Muslims