Ibrahim Aminu Ringim

Ibrahim Aminu Ringim is listed as born on 1963-07-14 with Benin City as birthplace. The profile text identifies him as Ibrahim Saminu Turaki, a Nigerian actuary and politician who served as governor of Jigawa State from 1999 to 2007, chaired the defunct SDP and UNCP in Jigawa, and represented Jigawa North-West in the Senate from 2007 to 2011. It also states he attended Federal Government College Kaduna and Ahmadu Bello University, graduating in actuarial science in 1985, and was later presented as a PDP senatorial candidate in 2023.

As governor, the text says he prioritized ICT for nation-building, established a major biotechnology center in Kazaure, and attracted DFID support for a state microcredit scheme for small-scale businesses. It further says DFID partnered with the state to support informatics education abroad, mostly in Japan, and that he initiated the Jigawa State Broadband Network Project to improve socioeconomic growth and digital competitiveness through satellite-based multimedia services.

The profile adds that this infrastructure was intended to support government services, education, commerce, training, and health systems. It also records that he was elected governor in 1999 and re-elected in 2003 on the ANPP platform, moved to PDP in December 2006, and joined APC in December 2015. In the 2023 Jigawa governorship election, Ibrahim Aminu Ringim ran on the NNPP platform and lost.