Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu
Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu (Talban Minna) | |
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| Governor of Niger State | |
| In office 29 May 2007 – 29 May 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Abdulkadri Kure |
| Succeeded by | Abubakar Sani Bello |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Minna, Niger State, Nigeria |
| Political party | PDP |
Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu is a senior civil servant who was elected governor of Niger State, Nigeria in April 2007. He was reelected on 26 April 2011.
In the March 2015 presidential and senate elections, Gov Aliyu failed in his senate race against David Umaru of the All Progressives Congress, who obtained 149,443 as against 46,459 votes for the governor. On April 11, 2015, he failed to win in his own polling unit in governorship and state assembly elections in polling unit 006 where Aliyu's PDP only obtained 100 votes against 361 votes for Kofar Danjuma Mainadi of the APC.