Abubakar Buba Atare

Dr Abubakar Buba Atare II (born Kokiya Abubakar Buba Atare 16 August 1987) is the second Mai or King of Tula Chiefdom, who was crowned on 21 December 2009 after the death of his father Buba K. Atare on 13 December 2009. Mai Abubakar was at the time of his appointment an engineering undergraduate student of Middlesex University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.[1] Dr Abubakar Kokiya Atare Buba is the second Mai or King of Tula Chiefdom in Kaltungo Local Government Area of Gombe State.[2] and is the secretary Gombe State Council of Emirs & Chiefs. The Mai in 2017, donated a parcel of land for the construction of a golf course in Tula.[3] he made the announcement during the opening ceremony of the maiden edition of Gombe Talba Open (GT Open) golf tournament at the Gongila Valley Golf Court, Ashaka Cement Factory in Gombe State. In 2018 during the annual tula cultural day HRH Mai Tula Dr Abubakar Kokiya Buba Atare II called on his people of Tula and the entire Southern Gombe Tangale Waja to be more united, an occasion that was graced by the Executive Governor of Gombe State Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo and the Emir of Misau HRH Ahmed Sulaiman [4] who was a former secretary to the Bauchi state Government.[5] In November 2017 the Mai attended the funeral rites of Daktibe Jalingo and his son who were murdered by gunmen, a gesture which we almost never see between kings and their subjects, in his speech he condemned the attack and tasked the authorities to apprehend the culprits in order to face full wrath of the law [6]