Yahaya Abdulkarim

Yahaya Abdulkarim
Governor of Sokoto State
In office
January 1992 – November 1993
Preceded byBashir Salihi Magashi
Succeeded byYakubu Mu'azu
Personal details
Born (1944-08-21) 21 August 1944 (age 80)
Talata Mafara, Northern Region, British Nigeria (now in Zamfara State, Nigeria)
Political partyPeople's Democratic Party

Malam Yahaya Abdulkarim (born 21 August 1944) is a Nigerian politician who was governor of Sokoto State, between January 1992 and November 1993, during General Ibrahim Babangida's attempted transition to democracy.[1] After the return to democracy in 1999, he became a power in the Zamfara State branch of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), and served for a while in the cabinet of president Olusegun Obasanjo.[2]

  1. ^ "Nigerian States". WorldStatesmen. Retrieved 10 January 2010.
  2. ^ Chuks Okocha (28 March 2008). "Gusau – PDP Members Take Protest to Abuja". ThisDay. Retrieved 10 January 2010.