Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu

Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu (Talban Minna)
Governor of Niger State[1]
In office
29 May 2007 – 29 May 2015
Preceded byAbdulkadri Kure
Succeeded byAbubakar Sani Bello
Personal details
BornMinna, Niger State, Nigeria
Political partyPDP

Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu is a senior civil servant who was elected governor of Niger State, Nigeria in April 2007.[2][3][4][5][6] He was reelected on 26 April 2011.[7]

In the March 2015 presidential and senate elections, Gov Aliyu failed in his senate race against David Umaru of the All Progressives Congress, who obtained 149,443 as against 46,459 votes for the governor.[8] On April 11, 2015, he failed to win in his own polling unit in governorship and state assembly elections in polling unit 006 where Aliyu's PDP only obtained 100 votes against 361 votes for Kofar Danjuma Mainadi of the APC.[9]

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  2. ^ "Governor Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu of Niger State". Nigeria Governors Forum. Retrieved 2009-12-08.
  3. ^ "Babangida Aliyu – Channels Television". Retrieved 2022-06-21.
  4. ^ "How Babangida Aliyu, Former Niger Governor, Two Others Used N2Billion Ecological Fund for Election Campaign —Anti-graft Agency, EFCC". Sahara Reporters. 2022-05-13. Retrieved 2022-06-21.
  5. ^ "PDP congratulates 'Chief Servant' Babangida Aliyu - P.M. News". Retrieved 2022-06-21.
  6. ^ "Atiku will defeat President in free, fair elections, says Niger ex-gov Aliyu". The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News. 2018-12-17. Retrieved 2022-06-21.
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  8. ^ "Governor Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu of PDP lost to David Umaru of APC". The Vanguard. Retrieved 2015-03-03.
  9. ^ "Governor Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu of PDP lost own polling unit, again". Leadership. Retrieved 2015-04-12.