Muhammad Adamu

 

Senator Muhammad Adamu Aliero was a former governor of Kebbi State and the Senator representing KebbiCentral Senatorial District at the National Assembly. He was born on January 01, 1957 in Aliero, Kebbi State.

Muhammad Adamu Age

Muhammad Adamu is 67 years old.

Muhammad Adamu Early Life

Adamu received his primary education at an Islamic school then went to Aliero Town Planning School in 1965. He thereafter attended the Government Secondary School in Koko and graduated in 1976.

Adamu Aliero got admission to the School of Basic Studies, Ahmadu Bello University, where he enrolled in the Interim Joint Matriculation Board (IJMB) certificate program. He began undergraduate studies in 1977 and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree Political Science in 1980.

Muhammad Adamu Career

Aliero began his working career in 1981, as an Administrative Officer at the College of Education in Sokoto and joined the Nigeria Customs and Excise 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.

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 were annulled soon after they were announced. Following the death of 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 with the ticket of the PDP. 

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

In the 2015 National Assembly elections, Muhammed Adamu Aliero contested again for the Kebbi Central Senatorial seat on the platform of the All Progressives Congress which he had defected to 2014 and was declared winner.

He is the Chairman Senate Committee on Customs, Excise & Tariff.

Muhammad Adamu Personal Life

Senator Muhammed Adamu Aliero is a muslim and has three wives Maimuna, Zainab and Aaliyah. He is the father of 10 children 9 boys 1 girl.Their names are Fatima, Sadiq, Mustapha, Abdulazziz Aliyu, Umar, Adamu, Khalil, Abubakar, and Ahmed. He is currently living in Abuja.

Muhammad Adamu Net Worth

His net worth is not available.

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