Yahaya Abdulkarim | |
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Governor of Sokoto State | |
In office January 1992 – November 1993 | |
Preceded by | Bashir Salihi Magashi |
Succeeded by | Yakubu Mu'azu |
Personal details | |
Born | Talata Mafara, Northern Region, British Nigeria (now in Zamfara State, Nigeria) | 21 August 1944
Political party | People'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]