Adamu Ibrahim Usman
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Adamu Ibrahim Usman is a Nigerian politician who contested the 2023 Nigerian Senate Elections as the Labour Party (LP) candidate in Gombe.
Biography
Ibrahim Adamu Gumba (born 10 October 1948) is a Nigerian politician who was elected senator for the Bauchi South constituency of Bauchi State, Nigeria, in the April 2011 national elections. He ran on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ticket.
He was born on 10 October 1948. He obtained a BSc in government. He worked in the Nigeria Customs Service, where he rose to the position of deputy comptroller general. Gumba became head of the Bauchi State civil service.
In 2006, he was appointed the commissioner of education in Bauchi State. The Bauchi South senatorial seat became vacant in May 2010 after Senator Bala Muhammed was appointed Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) by President Goodluck Jonathan.
In the 23 August 2010 bye-election for the Bauchi South senate seat, Gumba received 273,764 votes, while Ibrahim Haruna of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) trailed with 57,661 votes, and Danjuma Dabo of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) received 56,294 votes.
In the PDP primaries for the April 2011 election for the Bauchi South senatorial seat, Gumba gained the nomination at the expense of former Senator Abubakar Maikafi and one-time Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) national commissioner, Mohammed Abubakar.
In the elections, Gumba scored 312,627 votes, while Alhaji Mohammed Ibrahim of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) scored 114,281 votes. Senator Malam Wakili succeeded Gumba in the Senate after defeating Isa Yuguda in the general elections of March 2015.
Party Positions
Policy positions from the Labour Party (LP) party manifesto.
Agriculture
Will optimize agricultural value chains across all 36 states with targeted investments, addressing impediments like banditry, kidnapping, and desertification to enhance food security and advance agro-based industrialization.
Governance & Reform
Will restructure the Nigerian federation through legal and institutional reforms to strengthen federalism by moving agreed items from the exclusive list of the Federal government to the concurrent list, ensuring effective public action for growth and sustainable livelihood.
Security & Defense
Will implement key recommendations from previous police and security sector reform reports, including a three-level policing structure (local, state, federal) with detailed guidelines to curb abuses.
Reliefs and scholarships
Will resolve the national minimum wage problem by replacing the extant salary structure with an hourly productivity-based national minimum wage, ensuring binding application across all sectors.
Economy & Trade
Will reform the transport system, including logistics, ports, customs, and other agencies, to create an integrated transport system promoting inter-connectivity among ports, roads, rail, and inland waterways to reduce trade costs and enhance competitiveness.
Enterprise grant support
Will devise programs to reskill youths, create mandatory national certification for blue-collar artisans, strengthen STEM tertiary schools, and establish a venture capital-like fund for young entrepreneurs.
Environment & Climate
Will establish a Green Army to tap into $3 trillion in international climate finance for green growth, employment, and transition to a green economy.
Anti-corruption
Will establish the Office of Special Counsel to investigate and prosecute executive abuses of power and corruption, with constitutional amendments to exempt its prosecutions from the Nolle Prosequi power of the Attorney General.
Energy
Launch a solar power revolution in Northern Nigeria, ensuring uninterrupted power supply in cities and industrial parks by the end of 2024 through re-engagement of 14 Independent Power Producers (IPPs) and resolving financial impediments to reach $2.5 billion in PPAs for 1,125 MW of solar capacity.
Technology & Digital
Support private sector-led fiber-optic backbone projects connecting tertiary institutions and state capitals to enable free broadband access for digital transformation.
Infrastructure
Creation of national multi-utility transport tunnels (MUT) to integrate masterplans for gas, road, railway, urban mass transit, telecommunications, water, sewage, and electricity for cost efficiency and streamlined infrastructure development.
Education
Will implement a Marshall Plan-style education reform program with compulsory technical and vocational skills, entrepreneurship, and digital training from primary to secondary level, with strategic partnerships for incubators and seed funding.
Healthcare
Expand health insurance coverage to 133 million poorest Nigerians (including pregnant women, children, the elderly, and disabled) through strengthened NHIS with private sector involvement, ensuring accessibility and affordability.
Foreign Policy
Engage in Afro-centric diplomacy to protect Nigerian citizens abroad and advance economic interests through trade, investment, and diplomatic leverage.
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AMusa Haruna
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AEmly Simon
AMagaji Abubakar
AAAliyu Ngolma Poyilma
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Sources
Bio: INEC ↗
Date of Birth: Wikidata ↗
State of Origin: Wikipedia ↗
Gender, Qualifications: INEC ↗