Background
Maccido was born in 1961, son of the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Maccido, and went to school at Federal Government College, Sokoto.
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Badamasi Maccido
Edit Profilepolitician Member of the Senate of Nigeria
Education
He graduated from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria with a Bsc in Building Engineering.
Career
He died in a plane crash in October 2006. He once served as a Sokoto State commissioner in the administration of Governor Attahiru Bafarawa. Maccido was elected Senator for Sokoto North, taking his seat in May 2003.
In April 2005 the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) arraigned Maccido and others for involvement in an alleged N55 million budget bribe scam.
Also charged were former Senate President Adolphus Wabara and former Education Minister Fabian Osuji. They were said to have demanded, received and shared N55 million to facilitate the passage of Education ministry"s budget.
After extended legal battles, on 1 June 2010 a full panel of the Court of Appeal in Abuja quashed all the charges, discharged and acquitted the accused. In Maccido"s case, the acquittal was posthumous.
The plane, which was said to be in a poor state of maintenance, crashed in a storm shortly after take-official
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Born
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Nationality
Nigeria -
Political Party
People"s Party