Adamu Ciroma is a Nigeria

Nigeria

Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

n politician and former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria

Central Bank of Nigeria

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. He is currently a member of the People's Democratic Party

People's Democratic Party (Nigeria)

The People's Democratic Party is a political party in Nigeria. Its policies generally lie towards the right wing of the political spectrum. It has won every single Presidential elections since 1999, namely: 1999, 2003, 2007, and 2011, and is the dominant party in the Fourth Republic.-History:In...

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Second Republic career

In 1979, Ciroma was one of the National Party of Nigeria

National Party of Nigeria

The National Party of Nigeria was the dominant political party in Nigeria during the Second Republic .-Formation:The party's beginning could be traced to private and sometimes secret meetings among key Northern Nigerian leaders after the proscription of political parties in 1966 by the military...

 (NPN) presidential aspirants who contested in the party's presidential primary, in which he was supposedly sponsored by the faceless Kaduna Mafia

Kaduna Mafia

Kaduna Mafia is a name given to a loose group of young Northern Nigerian intellectuals, civil servants, business tycoons and military officers residing or conducting business in the former Northern capital city of Kaduna during the end of the first republic...

, a rumored group of northern intellectuals, serving officers and bureaucrat

Bureaucrat

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s stationed around Kaduna

Kaduna

Kaduna is the state capital of Kaduna State in north-central Nigeria. The city, located on the Kaduna River, is a trade center and a major transportation hub for the surrounding agricultural areas with its rail and road junction. The population of Kaduna is at 760,084 as of the 2006 Nigerian census...

. He came third in the primary, behind Shehu Shagari and Maitama Sule

Maitama Sule

Yusuf Maitama Sule is a Nigerian politician, intellectual, acclaimed orator and diplomat. In 1976, he became the Federal Commissioner of public complaints, a position that made him the nation's pioneer ombudsman. In early 1979, he was a presidential candidate of the National Party of Nigeria but...

, his candidcacy having been partly financed by Hamza Rafindadi Zayyad

Hamza Rafindadi Zayyad

Hamza Rafindadi Zayyad was the former head of the Technical Committee on Privatization and Commercialization in Nigeria. The Committee was designed to strengthen government's control of the direction of the country's then nascent privatization exercise.Alhaji Rafindadi was one of the few...

, the head of the New Nigeria Development Company.

Ciroma was briefly the secretary of the NPN and he later served at various times as Minister for Industries, Agriculture and Finance. As a senior cabinet minister in the Shagari administration, he played pivotal roles in the implementation of the president's agenda especially in the areas of food production and working with international agencies to develop an Agricultural Development Project (ADP). In September 1983, he was made the chairman of a presidential transition committee, which further demonstrated the trust the president had in his capabilities. The committee was mandated to make proposals on how to re-structure the federal government

Federal government

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 which was going through a crisis of confidence.

Fourth Republic career

Ciroma is a founding member of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), which has been ruling Nigeria since 1999. He served as Minister of Finance in the government of Olusegun Obasanjo from 1999 to 2003. Currently, his wife Maryam Ciroma

Maryam Ciroma

Hajia Maryam Inna Ciroma was appointed Nigerian minister of Women Affairs in July 2005 by President Olusegun Obasanjo.She was replaced by Saudatu Bungudu when President Umaru Yar'Adua swore in his cabinet in July 2007.-Background:...

holds the position of PDP National Women leader in Nigeria.