Abdulmumini M. Hassan

Abdulmumini M. Hassan Zareku
Senator for Jigawa South West
Incumbent
Assumed office
May 2011
Preceded by Mujitaba Mohammed Mallam
Personal details
Political party People's Democratic Party (PDP)

Abdulmumini M. Hassan Zareku is a Nigerian politician who was elected Senator for the Jigawa South West constituency of Jigawa State, Nigeria in the April 2011 Federal elections. He ran on the People's Democratic Party (PDP) platform.

Zareku was a past Vice-Chairman of the Jigawa Central chapter of the PDP. He was the commissioner representing Jigawa state in the Federal Character Commission, when he was elected as the PDP candidate for the Jigawa South West Senatorial seat in the PDP primary. He won with a total of 1,528 votes.[1]

Zareku was aged about 50 when he ran for election.[2] He gained 212,322 in the April 2011 elections, ahead of Mallam Mujjaba Mohammed of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) with 89,718 votes and Ayuba Adamu Madaki of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) with 69,324 votes.[3]

References

  1. ^ ISMAILA MUHAMMAD (10 January 2011). "PDP’s national vice chairman picks Senatorial seat in Jigawa". Daily Triumph. http://www.triumphnewspapers.org/pfpsw1012011.html. Retrieved 2011-05-06. 
  2. ^ "April 9, election results and updates". Daily Triumph. 15 April 2011. http://www.triumphnewspapers.org/april1542011.html. Retrieved 2011-05-06. 
  3. ^ "Collated Senate results". INEC. http://www.inecnigeria.org/downloads/?did=114. Retrieved 2011-05-06.