Ibrahim Mohammed Kirikasama (born February 1952) was elected Senator for the Jigawa North East constituency of

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at the start of the

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, running on the All People's Party (APP) platform. He took office on 29 May 1999. He was reelected in April 2003 on the

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(ANPP) platform for a second four-year term. After taking his seat in the Senate in June 1999 he was appointed to committees on Labour, Women Affairs, Agriculture, Information and Social Development & Sports. His constituency contains the ecologically and economically important wetlands on the

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, threatened by changes to water release due to the upriver

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. In a May 2006 debate on the proposal to allow President

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to run for a third term of office, Kirikasama opposed the proposal, describing it as an attempt at "legalising the illegality and constitutionalising unconstitutionality". In the April 2007 elections, Kirikasama ran for governor of Jigawa State on the ANPP platform, but was defeated by Alhaji

Sule Lamido Sule Lamido was born on (30 August 1948) served as Foreign Affairs Minister of Nigeria from 1999 to 2003. He was elected governor of Jigawa State in April 2007. He is a member of the former ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He ran successful ...

on the

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by 523,940 votes to 260,055. His selection as candidate had been resisted by the state chapter of the ANPP. Kirikasama said he would not challenge Lamido's victory for "personal reasons".

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