Aminu Bello Masari

Aminu Bello Masari (born 29 May 1950) is a Nigerian politician and current Governor of Katsina State. He was the speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives between 2003 and 2007. Masari hails from Masari village of Kafur local government, Katsina State.

Aminu Bello Masari
Governor of Katsina State
Assumed office
29 May 2015
Preceded byIbrahim Shema
Speaker of the House of Representatives
In office
2003–2007
Preceded byGhali Umar Na'Abba
Succeeded byPatricia Etteh
Personal details
Born (1950-05-29) 29 May 1950
Masari, Katsina
NationalityNigerian
Political partyAll Progressives Congress (APC)

Political Career

Masari contested for the office of Katsina State Governor in the 2011 election under the platform of defunct Congress for Progressive Change. He lost the Election to PDP's Ibrahim Shehu Shema.[1]

In December 2014 he emerged as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the March 2015 elections.[2][3]

Aminu Bello was declared winner of the 11 April 2015 Katsina State Governorship election, defeating Musa Nashuni.[4]

Aminu Bello Masari was sworn in as the Executive Governor of Katsina State on 29 May 2015.

Immediately after his inauguration, amid financial recession in the country, Governor Masari accused his predecessor of literally stealing the state treasury after 2015 elections and a few days to handing power to his new government. [5] This accusation along with similar financial cases amounting to N11 billion compelled EFCC to invite and later charge Barrister Shema to court along with some of his cabinet members.[6] Governor Masari also dissolved local government chairmen who were all from the ousted party. On its part, PDP challenged the state in court for dissolving democratically elected local government chairmen.[7]

Aminu Bello Masari was elected for a second term as Governor of Katsina in the March 9, 2019 Katsina State gubernatorial election under the platform of All Progressives Congress having polled 1, 178, 864 votes against Peoples Democratic Party's Senator Garba Yakubu Lado who had 488, 621 votes. [8] [9]

See
  • Katsina State Executive Council

References
  1. "2011 State Governorship Elections in Nigeria". africanelections.tripod.com. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
  2. "Masari: APC Govs Are Party Leaders in Their States". Archived from the original on 2014-09-05. Retrieved 2014-09-05.
  3. "How Jonathan stopped Egyptian style revolution in Nigeria - Masari". Archived from the original on 2014-09-05. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
  4. Muazu Elazeh Katsina (12 April 2015). "Masari Wins Katsina Guber Poll". Leadership Newspaper. Archived from the original on 15 May 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  5. Orijo (April 22, 2016). "Gov. Masari accuses Ex-Gov. Shema of stealing N400m worth cars". Orijo Reporter. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  6. Francis Sardauna (31 May 2018). "Court Adjourns EFCC's Case Against Shema". AllAfrica. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  7. Agency Report (September 4, 2018). "LG transition committees: Katsina PDP drags Masari to Supreme Court". Premium Times. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  8. "How Masari defeated Lado with wide margin, 690,243 votes in Kastina". Vanguard News. 2019-03-11. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
  9. Opeyemi, Adeola (2019-03-11). "Election 2019: Governor Masari re-elected for second term in Katsina". Legit.ng - Nigeria news. Retrieved 2019-03-14.


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