Abubakar Habu Hashidu

Alhaji Abubakar Habu Hashidu (10 April 1944 – 27 July 2018) was a Nigerian politician and former governor of Gombe State, Nigeria from May 1999 to May 2003.[1]

Abubakar Habu Hashidu
Governor of Gombe State
In office
29 May 1999 – 29 May 2003
Preceded byMohammed Bawa
Succeeded byMohammed Danjuma Goje
Personal details
Born(1944-04-10)10 April 1944
Hashidu, Colonial Nigeria
Died27 July 2018(2018-07-27) (aged 74)
Political partyAll People's Party (APP)

Hashidu was the minister of Water Resources as well as a minister of Agriculture and Rural Development during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida.[2] He was also a member of the Vision 2010 committee set up by General Sani Abacha to chart a developmental road-map for the country.[1]

Hashidu was the first elected governor of Gombe State, Nigeria, taking office on 29 May 1999, on the platform of the All People's Party (APP).[3] His Deputy Governor was Joshua Lidani.[4]

In January 2003 the All Nigeria Peoples Party endorsed Hashidu as its gubernatorial candidate for the April 2003 elections.[5] He failed to be reelected and conceded with praise for the Independent National Electoral Commission.[6] He was again candidate for governor of Gombe State in 2007 on the DPP platform. He was arrested in March 2007 and put on trial over violence that allegedly broke out after he started his political campaign.[7] Armed supporters stormed the magistrate's court, freeing Hashidu and wounding the judge presiding over his case.[8]

Hashidu died in his house in the early hours of 27 July 2018, after a protracted illness.[1]

References
  1. "Breaking: Former Gombe State Governor, Abubakar Hashidu is dead - Vanguard News". Vanguard News. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
  2. "Former Gombe governor, Abubakar Hashidu, dies – Punch Newspapers". punchng-com.cdn.ampproject.org. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
  3. "Nigerian States". WorldStatesmen. Archived from the original on 28 May 2010. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  4. IBRAHIM DEGRI (28 April 2010). "Who replaces late Senator Tawar Wada?". Daily trust. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  5. "ANPP Endorses Hashidu's Candidature". ThisDay. 6 January 2003. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  6. Saka Ibrahim (21 April 2003). "I Won't Challenge Results, Says Hashidu". ThisDay. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  7. "Ten feared dead, 30 houses burnt in Nigerian violence". BBC Monitoring International Reports. 20 March 2007. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  8. "2008 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - Nigeria". UNCHR Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. 25 February 2009. Archived from the original on 12 October 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2010.


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