Ibrahim Shekarau

Malam Ibrahim Shekarau ( born November 5, 1955 in Kano ) is a Nigerian politician. He was from April 2003 to April 2007 the Governor of the State of Kano. He is a member of the All Nigeria People's Party and was a candidate of his party in the presidential elections of 2011.

Life

Study and teaching

Shekarau studied mathematics to become a teacher in the Ahmadu Bello University. After that he started in 1978 as a teacher at the Government Technical College Wudil. In 1980 he was appointed director of Government Day Junior Secondary School in Wudil. He then moved in the same year at the Government Secondary School in Hadejia, Birnin Kudu in 1986 Government College, then in the Government Secondary School in Gwammaja and finally in March 1988 to the Rumfa College.

Bureaucrat

Shekarau in 1992 Deputy Director of Education Bankrupts border. He was Director of Planning, Research and Statistics in the Ministry of Education in 1993. In 1994 he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Education.

In January 1995, he worked as State Secretary in the Ministry of Water Resources. From there he went in May 1997 back to the Ministry of Education. From February to May 2000, he held various positions, most recently the head editor at the State College of Arts, Science and Remedial Studies ( CaSrS ). He remained there for 17 months until he resigned in October 2001. He then went into the private sector.

Policy

In the 2003 elections, he was elected governor of Kano and replaced after the 2007 elections by Rabi'u Musa Kwankwaso.

Abdulahi Askra, a journalist for the daily newspaper Blueprint, claimed to have that Shekarau in his tenure as governor Boko Haram with ten million naira per month (then about 63,000 U.S. dollars) to support the state to protect them from terrorist attacks. Shekarau dismissed the allegations.

Shekarau was a candidate in the presidential elections of 2011.