Yahuza Ado Inuwa | |
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Chairman of the Standards Council [1] | |
Assumed office August 2025 | |
Senior Legislative Aide to the Deputy Senate President of Nigeria | |
In office July 2023 –August 2025 | |
Deputy Senate President | Barau I. Jibrin |
Special Assistant to the Minister of Defence | |
In office July 2003 –May 2007 | |
Minister of Defence | Rabi'u Musa Kwankwaso |
Majority Whip of the Kano State House of Assembly | |
In office 29 May 1999 –20 June 2003 | |
Speaker | Rt. Hon. Abdullahi Ibrahim Gwarmai |
Personal details | |
Born | Dakata Kawaji,Nasarawa Local Government,Kano State | 3 March 1966
Nationality | Nigerian |
Political party | All Progressive Congress (APC) |
Other political affiliations | Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) (1999–2014) |
Residence(s) | Kano,Abuja |
Alma mater | Bayero University Kano |
Occupation | Legislature |
Profession | Politician |
Yahuza Ado Inuwa popularly known as Yahuza Ado Yankaba (born March 3,1966) is the Chairman of the Standards Council of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON). [2] He is an All Progressive Congress (APC) card carrying member from Nasarawa Local Government in Kano State.
Born on 3 March 1966 to the family of Alhaji Ado Inuwa Yankaba,in Kano city. Yahuza was a Graduate from Bayero University Kano,a focused personality who joined politics at an early age and became elected member of Kano State House of Assembly under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from Nasarawa Local Government in 1999. He was one of the frontline Members that supported Rabiu Kwankwaso administration between 1999 to 2003.
Yahuza Ado Inuwa was first elected to the Kano State House of Assembly under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 1999. He was the first Whip of the Kano State House of Assembly in the Fourth Nigerian Republic.
In 2025,Inuwa was appointed as the Chairman of the Standards Council of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) [3] by the Nigerian president,Bola Ahmed Tinubu,GCFR. [4]