Yakasai Salihu Tanko

Yakasai Salihu Tanko is listed here as a male Nigerian politician born on 1978-01-01, with qualifications recorded as First School Leaving Certificate, Senior Secondary School Certificate, and B.SC 50, and with Muhammad Shazali Musa as running mate. The same profile text also states a birthplace in Kano State and gives a detailed account of Alhaji Salihu Abubakar Tanko Yakasai as born on 5 December 1925 in Kofar Mata, Kano City, then Colonial Nigeria; his father, Abubakar Barau, was of Chamba origin from Adamawa, and his mother, Hauwa Abubakar, was a Fulani from Lau in present-day Taraba State.

It further states that his parents met and married in Kano after migrating there; that he was named Salihu and nicknamed Tanko; and that he grew up largely in Yakasai district, from which he derived his surname. During childhood he was given by his mother to her close friend and neighbour, Yaya Boyi, to be raised, and at age four his father relocated the family from Kofar Mata to Yakasai, where he began early Islamic education. The account says he attended a Qur'anic school in Yakasai from 1933 to 1937, enrolled at Shahuci Primary School in 1935, moved with his father in 1937 to Hardawa in Bauchi where his father worked as a tailor, continued Qur'anic studies there until 1939, returned to Kano and completed Islamic studies in several schools by 1942, resumed Shahuci evening classes in 1941 and completed in 1946, took British Council English tutorial classes in Kano from 1952 to 1955, enrolled in a Comparative Federalism course through the University of Ibadan's Extra-Mural Department in 1956, and later earned a diploma in political science at the Wilhelm Pieck Youths Higher Institute in the German Democratic Republic in 1963.

In the 2023 Kano State governorship election, he contested as the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) candidate with Muhammad Shazali Musa as running mate, and he lost the election.