Biography of attahiru dalhatu bafarawa pdpu

Nigerian politician

Alhaji Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa (born 4 November 1954) is a Nigerian politician who was the executive governor of Sokoto State in Nigeria from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2007.^[1]

Early career

He was a one-time local government councillor in charge of education.

In 1979, he ran unsuccessfully for election to the House of Representatives on the platform of the Great Nigeria Peoples Party (GNPP). He was a member of the National Constitutional Conference of 1994–1995, during the military rule of Sani Abacha.

He was a founding member of the United Nigeria Congress Party (UNCP – 1997) and the All People's Party (APP – 1998).^[2]

Governor of Sokoto State

In 1999, Bafarawa was elected governor of Sokoto State on the platform of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), and was re-elected for the ANPP in 2003.^[2] In March 2002, a Sharia court in Sokoto State freed a 35-year-old woman Safiya Hussaini, who had been senten