Mahdi Mohammed Gusau

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Barr. Mahdi Mohammed Gusau
Deputy Governor of Zamfara State
In office
29 May 2019 –23 February 2022 [1]
Website https://www.instagram.com/barrmahdi/

Mahdi Aliyu Mohammed Gusau (born 5 December 1981) is a Nigerian politician and lawyer, he served as deputy governor of Zamfara State from 2019 until his impeachment in 2022. [2] He was the Presidential Campaign Chairman 2023 election. He is a son of General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau who is a former Minister of Defence, Chief of Army Staff and National Security Adviser of Nigeria. [3] [4] [5]

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Early life and education

Gusau was born on 5 December 1981 in Gusau, Nigeria to then Lieutenant Colonel Aliyu Mohammed Gusau who was the Director of Military Intelligence. He attended Nigerian Military school in Zaria from 1994 to 2000 where he obtained his senior secondary school leaving Certificate. He later proceeded to study law in a university where he obtained an LLB degree. His childhood dream was to serve Nigeria through military service and is now a lawyer and politician.[ citation needed ]

Political career

Gusau started his political career as early as 2015, he contested for the National assembly representative of his constituency under Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) when he was 32. He was the running mate in the capacity of Deputy Governor to Bello Matawalle in the 2019 general election under the PDP. After the victorious election, Gusau was the youngest deputy governor in the Nigerian democracy and the fourth republic, in office when he was 37 years old. [6] He successfully led the PDP party in his state after the defection of Matawalle in 2021. Many Nigerians youths look up to him as one of the ambassadors to the "Not Too Young To Run" projects, having demonstrated his ability to his stand his ground on his political principles and for the best interest of his people. He was able to resist external influences to leave his party for the APC despite the defection of Matawalle and other members of the state assembly. Gusau was the chairman of the PDP presidential campaign council in the Zamfara state in 2023 general election.

Impeachment and reinstatement

On 29 June 2021, the former governor of Zamfara state, a senator and members of the house of assembly cross carpeted from the PDP platform where they contested and won their respective offices into the APC platform. Gusau remained loyal to his party and refused to join the movement, which many Nigerians including Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida commended. He later filed a suit against their defection suit marked "FHC/ABJ/CS/650/2021" and requested the court to declare their seats vacant as the law provided. [7] [8]

On 23 February 2022, the Zamfara State House of Assembly impeached Gusau as deputy governor and immediately replaced him with Senator Hassan Nasiha the serving senator representing Zamfara Central Senatorial District. [9] The action which was condemned nationwide by H.E Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi and more, following the adoption of a motion by Majority Leader, Faruku Dosara (APC -Maradun 1), at a plenary in Gusau. The motion came shortly after the House adopted the report of a panel led by Justice Haladu Tanko, which investigated alleged gross misconduct and abuse of office against him. The Speaker Nasiru Muazu Magarya, who presided over the sitting, directed the Clerk, Saidu Anka, to conduct a voice vote on the impeachment. Twenty of the 22 lawmakers present voted in favour of the impeachment; [7] however, it was later uncovered that the impeachment was backed baseless insubordination and abuse of office allegations by the defectors. [10]

Gusau was restored as the deputy governor of Zamfara following the order by the federal high court in Abuja by Justice Inyang Ekwo. [11] All the actions taken towards the illegal impeachment were reverted by the federal high court. [12] [13]

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