| Asheik Jarma | |
| Office1: | Governor of Borno State |
| Term Start1: | 1 October 1983 |
| Term End1: | 31 December 1983 |
| Predecessor1: | Mohammed Goni |
| Successor1: | Abubakar Waziri |
Asheik Jarma was elected Governor of Borno State, Nigeria in October 1983, holding office briefly until the military coup on 31 December 1983 that brought General Mohammadu Buhari to power.[1] He was elected on the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) platform.[2]
In the lead up to restoration of democracy in 1999, Jarma was a founding member of the People's Democratic Party (PDP).[3] In April 2001 the PDP suspended Jarma from its board of trustees for one month for flirting with other political associations.[4] In November 2001 he was a member of the interim contact and mobilisation committee for the newly formed United Nigeria Democratic Party (UNDP).[5]
In July 2008 a Senate ad hoc committee probing a food crisis implicated Jarma among others for abandoning £11.4 million worth of silo contracts.[6] In October 2009 he denied that he had attended the kick-off meeting of the recently launched National Democratic Movement (NDM) and said he had always been a bona fide member of the PDP.[7] In December 2009 Jarma endorsed the PDP candidature of Ambassador Saidu Pindar for Borno Governor in the 2011 elections.[8]