Haruna Abubakar
Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate
In office
3 June 1999 – 18 November 1999
PresidentEvan Enwerem
Succeeded byIbrahim Mantu
Senator for Nasarawa South
In office
3 June 1999 – 3 June 2003
Succeeded byEmmanuel Okpede
Personal details
Born(1952-06-06)6 June 1952
Lafia, Northern Region, British Nigeria (now in Nasarawa State, Nigeria)
Died27 February 2005(2005-02-27) (aged 52)
London, United Kingdom
Political party
EducationAhmadu Bello University (LL.B.)
Occupation
  • Politician
  • lawyer
  • businessman

Haruna Abubakar (6 June 1952 – 27 February 2005) was a Nigerian lawyer and politician who served as the deputy president of the Nigerian Senate in 1999.

Abubakar was born in Lafia, Nasarawa State, on 6 June 1952. He lost his father at a young age and was quickly adapted by his young uncle, the only person he grew up knowing as a father late Dalhatu Bawa.

He is a graduate of the prestigious Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria were he studied law.

As a lawyer, businessman and politician, Abubakar was a onetime legal adviser to the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) during the Nigerian Second Republic. He was Company Secretary and Legal Advisor to Benue Cement Company, he was also commissioner of Justice and Attorney General of Plateau State. He contested as running mate to Bagudu Hirse for the seat of governor and deputy governor of Plateau State, were they lost and subsequently Haruna was appointed as the Managing Director of Pipelines and Petroleum Products Marketing Company during the military regime of General Sani Abacha.[1]

At the start of the Nigerian Fourth Republic, running on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) platform, he was elected Senator for the Nasarawa South constituency of Nasarawa State, Nigeria. He took office on 3 June 1999.[2]

After taking his seat in the Senate in June 1999 he was appointed to committees on Selection (vice chairman), Senate Services, Petroleum, Judiciary, Economic Affairs and Local & Foreign Debts.[3] He was also appointed Deputy Senate President in 1999, but later in November that year he resigned his position after the senate president was forced to resign, paving way for Sen. Ibrahim Nasiru Mantu from Plateau State to take over as the deputy senate president.[1] In 2003, after leaving the senate, Haruna contested for the seat of governor of Nasarawa State under the NDP against the incumbent Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, he lost the highly contested election, and went ahead to election tribunal.

Death

Abubakar died in a London hospital after a protracted illness on 27 February 2005. He was buried in Lafia.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Constance Ikokwu (3 March 2002). "Senators Who Covet Governors' Job". ThisDay. Archived from the original on 28 November 2005. Retrieved 24 June 2010.
  2. ↑ "FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 20 FEBRUARY AND 7 MARCH 1999". Psephos. Retrieved 24 June 2010.
  3. ↑ "Congressional Committees". Nigeria Congress. Archived from the original on 18 November 2009. Retrieved 24 June 2010.
  4. ↑ Isa Sanusi & Zainab Alimi (2 March 2005). "Late Haruna Abubakar Buried in Lafia". Daily Trust. Retrieved 24 June 2010.


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