Yahaya Abubakar Abdullahi | |
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Senate Majority Leader | |
In office 3 June 2019 –8 June 2022 | |
Preceded by | Ahmad Lawan |
Succeeded by | Abdullahi Ibrahim Gobir |
Senator for Kebbi North | |
Assumed office June 2015 | |
Preceded by | Adamu Baba Augie |
Permanent Secretary,Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs | |
In office October 2008 –December 2010 | |
Honourable Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources,Sokoto and Kebbi States | |
In office 1990–1991 | |
Head of Department,Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology,Ahmadu Bello University,Zaria (and Member of the University Senate). | |
In office 1987–1990 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Argungu,Northern Region,British Nigeria (now in Kebbi State,Nigeria) | 10 December 1950
Political party | Peoples Democratic Party |
Alma mater | Ahmadu Bello University |
Profession | Associate Professor/Principal Research Fellow,(October 1990) |
Yahaya Abubakar Abdullahi CON (born 10 December 1950) is a Nigerian politician and an associate professor. [1] He is the Senator representing Kebbi North Senatorial District of Kebbi State at the 9th National Assembly. [2] [3] He was Senate Majority Leader of the Nigerian 9th National Assembly. [4]
He began his early education at the Dankoji Primary School,Argungu,from 1959 to 1964;after which he attended the Nagarta College,Sokoto,from 1965 to 1969. [5]
Yahaya attended the School of Basic Studies,Ahmadu Bello University,Zaria,Kaduna State,from 1970 to 1971 and continued in the same university to obtain a Bachelor of Science degree in social sciences,and a Doctor of Philosophy Ph.D.,in rural sociology from 1976 to 1983. Abdullahi also holds the Certificate of Development Oriented Research in Agriculture,ICRA,Wageningen,The Netherlands,1985. [1]
Prior to his engagement in the Nigerian Civil Service and later politics,Abdullahi was a busy academic at the Faculty of Agriculture,Ahmadu Bello University,Zaria,and the University of Lagos,during which he held various teaching and research positions,namely;
He taught Rural Sociology,Agricultural Institutions,Extension,Rural Community Institutions and Economic Development at the Faculty of Agriculture,Ahmadu Bello University,Zaria,at undergraduate and post-graduate levels,from 1976 to 1990. [6]
As the head of department,he supervised or co-supervised many masters and doctorate programmes,including the coordination of both teaching and research programmes of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology,Ahmadu Bello University,Zaria,Zaria. [6]
He undertook Rural Development Research independently,jointly and as a member of the Multi-disciplinary Teams,both within and outside Nigeria. [5]
In the 2015 elections,Abdullahi contested and won the Kebbi North Senatorial seat,on the platform of the All Progressives Congress,APC. [7] In the February 23,2019 elections,he was announced winner of the Kebbi North Senatorial District election having polled 170,624 votes as Usman Bello Suru of the PDP polled 66,815 votes. [8] [9]
On 3 June 2019,he was announced as the 9th National Assembly Senate Majority Leader. [10] [11]
On 8 June 2022,he officially left the All Progressives Congress,APC to the Peoples Democratic Party,to recontest his present seat at the Senate. [12]
In October 2022,a Nigerian National Honour of Commander Of The Order Of The Niger (CON) was conferred on him by President Muhammadu Buhari. [15]
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