Yusuf Abubakar Yusuf | |
Office: | Senator for Taraba Central |
Term Start: | 26 November 2015 |
Term End: | 11 June 2023 |
Alongside: | Shuaibu Isa Lau Emmanuel Bwacha |
Predecessor: | Bashir Marafa Abba |
Successor: | Haruna Manu |
Birth Date: | 5 November 1956 |
Birth Place: | Nguroje, Northern Region, British Nigeria (now in Taraba State, Nigeria) |
Party: | All Progressives Congress |
Occupation: | Politician |
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Yusuf Abubakar Yusuf (born 5 November 1956) is a Nigerian politician who served as the senator representing the Taraba Central senatorial district from 2015 to 2023.
Yusuf contested for the Taraba Central senatorial district seat in the 2015 Nigerian Senate elections on the platform of the APC. He was defeated by the PDP candidate Bashir Marafa Abba. He filled a case in the election tribunal and was declared winner on 26 November 2015, after the election tribunal, and an Appeal Court sacked Marafa Abba.[1] [2] [3] [4]
Born in Nguroje, he schooled at Ahmadu Bello University (BSc Economics, 1980) and the University of East Anglia (MA Economics, 1983).[5] He was a faculty member at the University of Maiduguri.