Yahaya Abdulkarim

Yahaya Abdulkarim
Governor of Sokoto State
In office
January 1992 – November 1993
Preceded byBashir Salihi Magashi
Succeeded byYakubu Mu'azu
Personal details
Born (1944-08-21) 21 August 1944
Talata Mafara, Northern Region, British Nigeria (now in Zamfara State, Nigeria)
PartyPeople's Democratic Party
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Malam Yahaya AbdulkarimListenⓘ (born 21 August 1944) is a Nigerian politician who was governor of Sokoto State, between January 1992 and November 1993, during General Ibrahim Babangida's attempted transition to democracy. After the return to democracy in 1999, he became a power in the Zamfara State branch of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), and served for a while in the cabinet of president Olusegun Obasanjo.

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