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 BIO-DATA OF HIS EXCELLENCE ALHAJI (DR.) BUKAR ABBA IBRAHIM, (FNIQS) THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNOR OF YOBE STATE OF NIGERIA.

 The Executive Governor of Yobe State, His Excellency, Alhaji Bukar Abba Ibrahim, Fellow of Nigeria Institute of Quantity Surveyors (FNIQS), was born in October, 1950 in Goniri of Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State.

 He started his early education at Goniri Central Primary School in 1956 and proceeded to Government College Maiduguri in 1965. After his excellent result in West African school Certificate Examination in 1970, he was admitted into preliminary science course of the Ahmadu Bello University from 1972 to 1975 where he obtained his bachelor of science degree in Quantity Surveying.

Thereafter, he undertook his postgraduate professional training in the United Kingdom from 1981 to 1982 leading to qualification as associate member of the Nigeria Institute of Quantity Surveyors.

A very active and pragmatic civil servant who after gaining a lot of experience in the civil service metamorphosed into a very active politician of enviable reputation.

In the civil service, he rose from Pupil Quantity Surveyor to Town Engineer to Commissioner of Works in the former Borno State Government Between 1985 to 1988.

Upon the creation of Yobe State in 1991, he contested and won the election under the SDP as the first Executive Governor of Yobe State and sworn in 1992. He was the Governor up to November 1993, when the military again interrupted.

Meanwhile, he held various top positions in the party hierarchy from SDP to UNCP to APP where he contested again for the Governorship seat and become for the second time the Executive Governor of Yobe State and was sworn-in on the 29^th of May, 1999. At the end of his four year term, he re-contested and won for the third time with landslide victory and has gone less than a year into the tenure. Alhaji Bukar Abba Ibrahim is a partner in Konti-Sab Associates. His hobbies are playing Hockey, Badminton and Football. He is married with children.

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