Adamu Aliero

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Adamu Aliero
Senator for Kebbi Central
Incumbent
Assumed office
9 June 2015
Spouses
  • Maimuna Aliero
  • Zainab Aliero
  • Aaliyah Aliero
Children11
Alma mater Ahmadu Bello University
OccupationPolitician

Muhammad Adamu Aliero (born 1 January 1957) is a Nigerian politician who is the senator representing Kebbi Central senatorial district since 2015. He previously served in that position from 2007 to 2008. [1] [2] He served as the governor of Kebbi State from 1999 to 2007. [3] He is a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

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Aliero was appointed minister of the Federal Capital Territory by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua in December 2008. [4] He left office in March 2010 when Acting President Goodluck Jonathan dissolved his cabinet. [5]

Early life and education

Born in Aliero, Aliero Local Government Area of Kebbi State (then part of the Northern Region), Adamu received his primary education at an Islamic school. His elementary education commenced in 1965 at Aliero Town Planning School. He then attended the Government Secondary School in Koko and graduated in 1976.

This was followed by admission into the School of Basic Studies at Ahmadu Bello University, where he enrolled in the Interim Joint Matriculation Board (IJMB) certificate program. He began his undergraduate studies in 1977 and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in political science in 1980.

Early career

In 1981, Aliero began his working career as an administrative officer at the College of Education in Sokoto and joined the Nigeria Immigration Service in the same year. In 1997, he voluntarily resigned from the Customs and Excise Service and went into the private business sector, dealing in export and import trade.

Political career

His political career began in 1998 when, running on the platform of the now defunct United Nigeria Congress Party (UNCP), he contested and won a Senate seat representing the Kebbi Central constituency. The results of the election annulled soon after they were announced. Following the death of military dictator General Sani Abacha and a brief period of transition, new elections were held. Aliero, now representing the All People's Party (APP), contested and won the Kebbi State gubernatorial election. He was sworn in on 29 May 1999.

Aliero was re-elected in 2003 for a second four-year term and was one of only four incumbent ANPP (the APP was later renamed All Nigeria People's Party due to a factional split) governors to maintain their positions.

Aliero left the ANPP and joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in February 2007. He contested the April 2007 general elections for the Senate and won under the banner of the PDP. He is currently the member representing Kebbi Central Senatorial District in the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

He has been switching from one party to the other. For example, he re-decamped to PDP after spending about a year in CPC in early 2012. [6] [7] [8] He later moved from PDP to APC in 2014. He and his some of his close associates since 1999, like Sani Zauro, who was also former state chairman of defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) board of trustees (BoT) in Kebbi State also quit PDP for APC. [9] [10]

He was named the chairman, Senate committee on land transport of the 10th senate on 8 August 2023. [11]

Personal life

Aliero has three wives Maimuna, Zainab and Aaliyah. He is the father of 11 children 10 boys and a girl. Their names are Fatima, Sadiq, Mustapha, Abdulazziz Aliyu, Umar, Ayman, Adamu, Khalil, Abubakar, and Ahmed. He is currently living in Abuja. [12]


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References

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  2. ↑ "Adamu Aliero biography, net worth, age, family, contact & picture". www.manpower.com.ng. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  3. ↑ "Former Kebbi Governor, Adamu Aliero Dumps Ruling APC for PDP". Sahara Reporters. 9 June 2022. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
  4. ↑ Ogbuenyi, Nosike; Akosile, Abimbola; Ojeifo, Sufuyan (19 December 2008). "Yar'Adua Renews His Mission". This Day . Retrieved 15 April 2010– via allAfrica.
  5. ↑ Idonor, Daniel (17 March 2010). "Jonathan Sacks Ministers". Vanguard . Retrieved 14 April 2010– via allAfrica.
  6. ↑ "Home".
  7. ↑ "Breaking News: Aliero, CPC, ACN governorship candidates in Kebbi decamp to PDP". Premium Times. 22 March 2012. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  8. ↑ "Why we abandoned CPC for PDP - Kangiwa twins". Archived from the original on 2 October 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  9. ↑ http://www.bbc.com/hausa/news/2014/12/141207_aleiro_defectio%5B%5D
  10. ↑ "PDP chieftain defects to APC in Kebbi". Peoples Daily . Archived from the original on 2 October 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  11. ↑ "Lawan, Yari, Tambuwal, Oshiomhole, Sani Musa, Others Emerge Senate Committee Chairmen". This Day. 8 August 2023. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
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