Sahabi Alhaji Yaú 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 politicin who was elected to represent the All Nigeria Peoples Party as Senator in the Zamfara North district of Zamfara State

Zamfara State

Zamfara State is a state in northwestern Nigeria. Its capital is Gusau and its Governor is Abdul'aziz Abubakar Yari, a member of the All Nigeria Peoples Party . Until 1996 the area was part of Sokoto State....

 in 2007.

Background

Sahabi Alhaji Yaú has a Masters In Business Administration and a Post Graduate Diploma In Management.

Personal life

Sahabi Ya'u was party to high profile court case after one of his wives maintained she had not consented to their marriage. The case attracted international attention because it involved the intersection of Islamic and secular courts in the Nigerian legal system.

Political career

Sahabi Alhaji Yaú was elected to the senate on the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) slate for the Zamfara North Senatorial District in 2007. He was appointed to committees on Downstream Petroleum, Inter-Parliamentary Affairs, Public Accounts and States & Local Government.

After the state governor Alhaji Mamuda Aliyu Shinkafi

Mamuda Aliyu Shinkafi

Mamuda Aliyu Shinkafi is a Nigerian politician. As deputy governor of Zamfara State in 2002, he endorsed an Islamic judgement calling on Muslims to kill the fashion writer Isioma Daniel after she wrote that the Prophet Mohammed may have approved of the Miss World contest and perhaps would have...

 transferred his alliegance from the ANPP to the Peoples Democratic Party

Peoples Democratic Party

The Peoples Democratic Party is a political party in Guyana which plans to contest the 2011 presidential elections. The party promotes adoption of the US dollar, land redistribution, and increased firearms ownership....

 (PDP), Sahabi Ya'u made it clear that he retained loyalty to Shinkafi, although he still remains technically a member of the ANPP.
In February 2008 Ya’u gave his support for President Umaru Yar'Adua (PDP) against charges that he was indecisive, saying that it was necessary to study situations in Nigeria thoroughly before taking decisions.

In March 2009 Yaú said that the National Assembly's Joint Committee on Constitution Review, of which he is a member, was considering giving the third tier of government in Nigeria budgets independent of the state governments. The goal would be to ensure that funding for local projects was used for the intended purpose.

In the 9 April 2011 elections, Yaú ran for reelection as Zamfara North Senator, this time on 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...

(PDP) platform.
He won with 118,056 votes.