Ahmed Adamu
Date of Birth: 3 March 1985
State of Origin: Yobe
Gender: Male
Qualifications: WAEC
Elections Contested: 1
Bio
Ahmed Adamu is listed as a male Nigerian politician born on 1985-03-03 (age ~41), with Katsina recorded as birthplace and Newcastle University listed under education. For the 2023 Yobe State governorship election, he ran with Abubakar Adamu Isah as running mate; the running mate is further described with Keffi as birthplace and education at Kaduna Polytechnic, the University of Jos, and the Nigerian Law School.
The profile text also includes biographical details of Abdullahi Adamu (born 23 July 1946), identifying him as former governor of Nasarawa State from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2007 and a member and former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC). It states he attended Government Secondary School, Makurdi (1960-1962), Government Technical College, Bukuru (1962-1965), and Kaduna Polytechnic (1965-1968), returned for an HND in June 1971, worked with the Electricity Corporation of Nigeria from 1967, joined NNDC Kaduna in 1971, joined AEK in 1973 as project manager for Durbar Hotel and Murtala Mohammed Square in Kaduna, served as Executive Secretary of Benue/Plateau Construction Company from October 1975, chaired Benue Cement Company from February 1980 to September 1983, earned an LLB (Hons) from the University of Jos in 1992, obtained BL at the Nigerian Law School and was called to the Bar in December 1993.
The same text adds that Adamu entered politics in 1977, was elected to the Constituent Assembly for Nigeria's Second Republic constitution, became a pioneer member of the NPN, served as first Secretary-General of NPN in Plateau State from December 1978, chaired the party in Plateau from 1982 to 1983, was appointed to the National Constitutional Conference in 1994, and served as Minister of State for Works and Housing from March 1995 to November 1997.