Career
He was the chairman senate committee on public account from 1999 to 2007, and the Governor of Yobe State from 2007 up until his death in 2009. He was receiving medical treatment for leukemia in a Florida hospital when he died.
politician Member of the Senate of Nigeria
He was the chairman senate committee on public account from 1999 to 2007, and the Governor of Yobe State from 2007 up until his death in 2009. He was receiving medical treatment for leukemia in a Florida hospital when he died.
He was a member of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP).