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Abdullahi Sarki Mukhtar | |
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Nigerian National Security Adviser | |
In office 1 June 2006 –8 March 2010 | |
President | Olusegun Obasanjo Umaru Musa Yar'adua |
Preceded by | Aliyu Mohammed Gusau |
Succeeded by | Aliyu Mohammed Gusau |
Governor of Kaduna State | |
In office July 1988 –August 1990 | |
President | Ibrahim Babangida |
Preceded by | Abubakar Dangiwa Umar |
Succeeded by | Tanko Ayuba |
Governor of Katsina State | |
In office September 1987 –July 1988 | |
President | Ibrahim Babangida |
Succeeded by | Lawrence Onoja |
Personal details | |
Born | Kano State,Colonial Nigeria | 5 July 1949
Military service | |
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Abdullahi Sarki Mukhtar (born 5 July 1949,in Kano State,Nigeria) was formerly the National security adviser to the president of Nigeria. Rtd Major General Muktar was also a former military governor of Kaduna state and Katsina State,in the case of the latter he was the first administrator or governor.
He had a fairly prominent army career culminating with his appointment as the general officer commanding the first division,Nigerian army in Kaduna state,before that,he was the Chief of Staff of a peace keeping force in Liberia. [1]
The retired general was one of the few serving high-ranking officers in the middle of the 1990s who voiced concerns over the detention and trial of the former President Obasanjo and his former deputy Shehu Musa Yar'Adua. [2] He is known as a principled and charismatic officer who earned the respect of President Obasanjo when he refused to budge to the demands of Sani Abacha,on the treatment of coups suspects in 1995.[ citation needed ]
From 23 January 2002,to 30 May 2003,he administrated the Embassy of Nigeria in Moscow and was also accredited to Minsk. [3]