Haruna Abubakar (6 June 1952 – 27 February 2005) was a Nigerian lawyer and politician who served as the

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in 1999. Abubakar was born in Lafia, Nasarawa State, on 6 June 1952. He lost his father at a young age and was quickly adapted by his young uncle, the only person he grew up knowing as a father late Dalhatu Bawa. He is a graduate of the prestigious

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were he studied law. As a lawyer, businessman and politician, Abubakar was a onetime legal adviser to the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) during the

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. He was Company Secretary and Legal Advisor to Benue Cement Company, he was also commissioner of Justice and Attorney General of Plateau State. He contested as running mate to Bagudu Hirse for the seat of governor and deputy governor of Plateau State, were they lost and subsequently Haruna was appointed as the Managing Director of Pipelines and Petroleum Products Marketing Company during the military regime of General

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. At the start of the

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, running on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) platform, he was elected Senator for the Nasarawa South constituency of Nasarawa State,

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. He took office on 3 June 1999. After taking his seat in the Senate in June 1999 he was appointed to committees on Selection (vice chairman), Senate Services, Petroleum, Judiciary, Economic Affairs and Local & Foreign Debts. He was also appointed Deputy Senate President in 1999, but later in November that year he resigned his position after the senate president was forced to resign, paving way for Sen. Ibrahim Nasiru Mantu from Plateau State to take over as the deputy senate president. In 2003, after leaving the senate, Haruna contested for the seat of governor of Nasarawa State under the NDP against the incumbent Sen.

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, he lost the highly contested election, and went ahead to election tribunal.

Death

Abubakar died in a London hospital after a protracted illness on 27 February 2005. He was buried in

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