Usman Albishir
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Usman Albishir was elected Senator for the Yobe North constituency of Yobe State
, Nigeria
at the start of the Nigerian Fourth Republic
, running on the All People's Party (APP) platform. He took office on 29 May 1999.
He was reelected in April 2003 on the All Nigeria People's Party
(ANPP) platform.
After taking his seat in the Senate in June 1999 Albishir was appointed to committees on Selection, Banking & Currency, Defense, Transport and Privatization.
After reelection in 2003 he was appointed Senate Minority Leader, but resigned this position under pressure in December 2004.
Albishir was a contender to be ANPP candidate for the 2007 Yobe State governorship race, supported by the incumbent Governor Bukar Abba Ibrahim, and won 382 votes against Senator Mamman Bello Ali
's 88 votes in the primary election.
However, due to legal issues the party named Bello Ali as candidate and he was elected.
Albishir appealed this decision, and the case dragged through the courts until in February 2010 the Supreme Court finally dismissed his last appeal.
Albishir later transferred to the People's Democratic Party
(PDP) in hopes of winning the 2011 governorship election on that platform.
On 11 January 2011 at the PDP primaries held at the August 27th Stadium in Damaturu, Yobe State, Usman Albishir defeated former minister of Police Affairs Alhaji Adamu Maina Waziri and Mallam Garba Umar to clinch the party's governorship ticket for the general election in April 2011. Engineer Yakubu Bello withdrew from the race shortly before the commencement of the election while Hassan Saleh, erstwhile Secretary to Yobe State government withdrew a few days later. Albishir scored 388 votes; Waziri got 226 while Garba Umar scored 46.
Yobe State
Yobe State is a state located in Northern Nigeria. A mainly agricultural state, it was created on August 27, 1991. Yobe state was carved out of present-day Borno State. The capital of Yobe state is Damaturu.-Geography:...
, 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...
at the start of the Nigerian Fourth Republic
Nigerian Fourth Republic
The Fourth Republic is the republican government of Nigeria. Since 1999 it has governed the country according to the fourth republican constitution. It was in many ways a revival of the Second Republic, which was in place between 1979 and 1983 and suffers many of the same problems, such as multiple...
, running on the All People's Party (APP) platform. He took office on 29 May 1999.
He was reelected in April 2003 on the All Nigeria People's Party
All Nigeria People's Party
The All Nigeria Peoples Party is a conservative political party in Nigeria. At the last legislative elections , the party won 27.0% of the popular vote and 92 out of 360 seats in the House of Representatives and 27 out of 109 seats in the Senate...
(ANPP) platform.
After taking his seat in the Senate in June 1999 Albishir was appointed to committees on Selection, Banking & Currency, Defense, Transport and Privatization.
After reelection in 2003 he was appointed Senate Minority Leader, but resigned this position under pressure in December 2004.
Albishir was a contender to be ANPP candidate for the 2007 Yobe State governorship race, supported by the incumbent Governor Bukar Abba Ibrahim, and won 382 votes against Senator Mamman Bello Ali
Mamman Bello Ali
Mamman Bello Ali was Nigerian Senator for Yobe South from 1999 to 2007, and the Governor of Yobe State from 2007 up until his death. He was a member of the All Nigeria Peoples Party . He was receiving medical treatment for leukemia in a Florida hospital when he died.-References:...
's 88 votes in the primary election.
However, due to legal issues the party named Bello Ali as candidate and he was elected.
Albishir appealed this decision, and the case dragged through the courts until in February 2010 the Supreme Court finally dismissed his last appeal.
Albishir later transferred to 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) in hopes of winning the 2011 governorship election on that platform.
On 11 January 2011 at the PDP primaries held at the August 27th Stadium in Damaturu, Yobe State, Usman Albishir defeated former minister of Police Affairs Alhaji Adamu Maina Waziri and Mallam Garba Umar to clinch the party's governorship ticket for the general election in April 2011. Engineer Yakubu Bello withdrew from the race shortly before the commencement of the election while Hassan Saleh, erstwhile Secretary to Yobe State government withdrew a few days later. Albishir scored 388 votes; Waziri got 226 while Garba Umar scored 46.