Dahiru Ahmed Aishatu

Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed, popularly known as Aisha Binani, is a Nigerian politician and entrepreneur born on 11 August 1971 in Kaduna. She served as senator for Adamawa Central from 2019 to 2023 and was appointed Gimbiyar Adamawa by the Adamawa Emirate Council on 30 March 2020. Her family background is linked in the profile to Dahiru Ahmed Chiroma and the family of Muhammed Ribadu, Nigeria's first Defence Minister. She started school in Kaduna, completed primary education at Gwadabawa Primary School in Jimeta, Yola, and attended Government Secondary School, Yola.

Her listed qualifications include FIRST SCHOOL LEAVING CERTIFICATE, GCE, and HND, alongside OND and HND credentials in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Federal Polytechnic, Mubi (1993). She completed NYSC in Borno with a state merit award, later obtained a certificate in Rural Radio Systems from the University of Southampton, and earned a postgraduate diploma in Business Management and a certificate in Data Processing from Nasarawa State University, Keffi. She entered politics in 2011, represented Yola North, Yola South, and Girei Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives from 2011 to 2015 under the PDP, chaired the House Committee on Constituency Outreach, served on several committees, and distributed 75,000 school bags in 2015. She was described as promoting healthcare, education, agriculture, employment generation, and infrastructure initiatives, and she later contested the 2023 Adamawa governorship election on the APC ticket with Ganama Titsi Kwaga as running mate, but lost.