Yahaya Mohammed Sani

Yahaya Mohammed Sani, born on 1 January 1965, was listed as a male candidate in the 2023 Taraba State governorship election, where he ran on the NNPP ticket with Yakubu Danladi Balutu as running mate. His listed qualifications were First School Leaving Certificate, SSCE, BSc, MBC, PhD, and PGD, and his birthplace was recorded as Kano.

The source text attached to his profile contains an extended biographical account of Sani Abacha (20 September 1943 to 8 June 1998), describing Abacha as Nigeria's military head of state from 1993 to 1998 after a palace coup, and characterizing that period as marked by severe human-rights abuses, political assassinations, summary executions, and international isolation, including fallout from the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa. It also states allegations that between US$2 billion and US$5 billion was embezzled and hidden across Switzerland, Liechtenstein, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

The same account says Abacha was born and raised in Kano to a Kanuri family originally from present-day Borno State; attended the Nigerian Military Training College in Kaduna and Mons Officer Cadet School in Aldershot, England; was commissioned in 1963; participated in coups from 1966 onward; fought in the Nigerian Civil War in 1969; later commanded the 2nd Infantry Division; and in 1983 became general officer commanding of the 2nd Mechanised Division and a member of the Supreme Military Council. It adds that Abacha's death in June 1998 preceded the return to civilian rule in 1999, after which Abdulsalami Abubakar succeeded him.