Garba Yakubu Lado Danmarke (born 1961) is a Nigerian businessman who became a Member of the

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(2003–2007) and was elected a Federal Senator in April 2007 for Katsina South constituency of

Katsina State Katsina State ''(Hausa: Jihar Katsina) (Fula: Leydi Katsina 𞤤𞤫𞤴𞤣𞤭 𞤳𞤢𞥁𞤭𞤲𞤢)'' is a state in the northwestern geopolitical zone of Nigeria. Katsina State was created in 1987, when it split from Kaduna State. Today, K ...

as a member of the

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(PDP).

Background

Garba Yakubu Lado was born in 1961, in a village called danmarke and he attended danmarke primary school and government college katsina . He obtained an advanced Diploma in Management & Finance from

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. He was a Chairman of a Local Government Council from 1999–2002, and a Member of the House of Representative (2003–2007).

Senate career

Garba Yakubu Lado was elected Senator in April 2007 for Katsina South as a member of the

(PDP). He was appointed to committees on Water Resources, Sports and Land Transport. As chairman of the

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Committee on Land Transport, in October 2008, Lado said the Ministry had not briefed him on a decision to temporarily suspend an 8.3 billion dollar railway modernization project, which had been awarded in 2006 to the Chinese construction firm

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(CCECC) during the administration of President

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. In November 2009, Yakubu Lado said the

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Establishment bill would soon be passed into law, allowing private sector participation in the rail sector. In May 2009, Yakubu Lado and Governor

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were competing for influence in Katsina State. At a PDP convention in Abuja, there was a scuffle between supporters of the two men. Shortly after, the PDP zonal leadership said Lado had been suspended from the party. However, the PDP state working committee supported Lado and nullified the suspension.

Gubernatorial Aspiration

When he was a senator, Yakubu Lado contested for the 2007 gubernatorial position in his home state Katsina under the platform of CPC and late

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's brother, AbdulAziz Musa Yar'adua was his running mate and the major opponent was the incumbent governor Barrister Ibrahim Shehu Shema. The campaign was characterized by violent clashes between the two opposing parties that led to the arrest of Yakubu Lado. Senator Yakubu Lado lost to the incumbent governor in what was considered a 'hidden reconciliation' between the prime aspirants. Decamping to PDP, Senator Yakubu Lado contested for the same position in 2019 against the incumbent governor

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of the APC. Senator Lado lost again to the incumbent governor.

References

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