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of
Plateau State
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Plateau State is described as "The Home of Peace and To ...
between December 1993 and August 1996 during the military regime of General
Sani Abacha
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.
He was elected Senator for Adamawa North in 2007 on the
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(PDP) platform.
Background
Mana was born on 7 October 1950. He attended the Government College,
Keffi
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.
He obtained a
diploma
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in Petroleum Technology from the
US Army
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Quartermaster School in 1976.
In 1987, he obtained a diploma in
Public Administration
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from
Ahmadu Bello University
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,
Zaria
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.
Military career
As Governor of
Plateau State
Plateau State is the twelfth-largest Nigerian state. It is in the centre of the country includes a range of hills surrounding the Jos Plateau, its capital, and the entire plateau itself.
Plateau State is described as "The Home of Peace and To ...
, in 1994, Lt. Col. Mohammed Mana set up a commission to look into the
inter-ethnic
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conflict in Jos.
The problems were due to friction between the Berom, Anaguta, and
Afizere
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tribes on the one hand, and the
Hausa
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-
Fulani
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tribes on the other hand.
Riots had been triggered by Mana's appointment of a Hausa man as "caretaker Committee chairman" of Jos.
Mana retired from the military in June 1999 when President
Olusegun Obasanjo
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decreed that all former military administrators must retire.
Civilian career
After becoming Senator in May 2007, Mana was appointed to committees on Selection, Power, Integration, and Cooperation.
He was also appointed deputy
chief whip
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...
of the Senate.
He sponsored an Amendment Bill on Border Areas Development Commission, 2009 and a Bill for an Act on
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, 2009.
Talking in March 2009 on the
Electoral Reform
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report of the committee headed by Justice
Mohammed Uwais
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, he recommended that the head of the
Independent National Electoral Commission
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be appointed by the executive, but subject to
judicial review
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senate President
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David Mark
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Plateau State
Plateau State is the twelfth-largest Nigerian state. It is in the centre of the country includes a range of hills surrounding the Jos Plateau, its capital, and the entire plateau itself.
Plateau State is described as "The Home of Peace and To ...
to use their close ties with the new military leaders of
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and
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.
In the run-up to the 9 April 2011 national elections, Mana was a contender in the PDP primaries to again be Senatorial candidate for Adamawa North. However, he lost the nomination.
Mana filed an appeal against the selection of Umar Bindo Jibrilla as the candidate for Adamawa North.
On 29 March 2011 a Federal High Court in
Abuja
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dismissed the appeal as lacking in merit.
Mana appealed this ruling.
An early report of the Adamawa North Senatorial election results said that
Bindo Jibrilla
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Boni Haruna
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of the
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(ACN), polling 75,112 votes to Haruna's 70,890 votes. The
Congress for Progressive Change
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(CPC) candidate, Abba Mohammed, scored 22,866.
This result was also reported by the
Independent National Electoral Commission
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(INEC) as of 16 April.
However, by 23 April, the Nigeria Elections Coalition was reporting that Mana was the winning PDP candidate.