Aminu Bello Masari (born 29 May 1950) is a Nigerian politician who served as governor of Katsina State from 2015 to 2023. He was the Commissioner for works, housing and transport Katsina state from 1991 to 1993. He was the speaker of the Nigerian

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between 2003 and 2007. Masari hails from Masari village of Kafur local government area of

Katsina State Katsina State ( ; 𞤤𞤫𞤴𞤣𞤭 𞤳𞤢𞥁𞤭𞤲𞤢) is a state in the northwestern geopolitical zone of Nigeria. It is bordered to the west by Zamfara State, to the east by Kano and Jigawa states, and to the south by Kaduna St ...

. In recognition of his service to Nigeria, Aminu Masari received the National Award of honour of Commander of the Federal Republic (CFR) in 2005, by His Excellency, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo GCFR. This is in addition to the several other honours and awards that he has been dressed with.

Political career

Masari contested for the office of Katsina State Governor in the 2011 election under the platform of defunct

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. He lost the Election to PDP's Ibrahim Shehu Shema. In December 2014 he emerged as the governorship candidate of the

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for the March 2015 elections. Aminu Bello was declared winner of the 11 April 2015

Governorship election, defeating Musa Nashuni. Aminu Bello Masari was sworn in as the Executive Governor of Katsina State on 29 May 2015. Immediately after his inauguration, amid financial recession in the country, Governor Masari accused his predecessor of literally stealing the state treasury after 2015 elections and a few days to handing power to his new government. This accusation along with similar financial cases amounting to N11 billion compelled EFCC to invite and later charge Barrister Shema to court along with some of his cabinet members. Governor Masari also dissolved local government chairmen who were all from the ousted party. On its part, PDP challenged the state in court for dissolving democratically elected local government chairmen. Aminu Bello Masari was elected for a second term as Governor of Katsina in the 9 March 2019 Katsina State gubernatorial election under the platform of

having polled 1,178,864 votes against Peoples Democratic Party's Senator Garba Yakubu Lado who had 488,621 votes.

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Speakers of the House of Representatives (Nigeria) 1950 births Living people Nigerian Muslims Place of birth missing (living people) All Progressives Congress politicians Politicians from Katsina People from Katsina State Peoples Democratic Party members of the House of Representatives (Nigeria) Members of the 5th National Assembly (Nigeria) {{Katsina-politician-stub

Political career

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