Senator Abdullahi Adamu was born in Keffi in July 1946 and has been representing Nasarawa West Senatorial District in the Senate since 2011.
Adamu happens to be a popular statesman in Nigeria’s political arena before assuming the role of the national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) last Sunday in a consensus arrangement at the party’s national convention.
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Adamu, also known as the “Bridge,” commenced his political career in 1977 when he was elected to the Constituent Assembly, which drafted the 1979 Constitution.
He started at Abdu Zanga Primary School in Keffi and finished at Laminga Senior Primary School in 1959.
Between 1960 and 1962, Adamu attended Government Secondary School in Makurdi, Benue state, and from 1962 to 1965, he attended Government Technical College in Bukuru, Plateau state.
Adamu graduated from Kaduna Polytechnic with an Ordinary National Diploma (OND) in Building and Civil Engineering in 1968 and a Higher National Diploma from the same institution in 1971.
Before returning for his HND, he worked as a maintenance supervisor at the National Electric Power Authority.
Mr Adamu began his career in the private sector after leaving school and working for the Northern Nigeria Development Corporation (NDDC) in Kaduna.
He worked as a Consultant Area Manager for AEK, a consulting firm, and was later appointed Executive Secretary of the Jos-based Benue-Plateau Construction Company (BEPCO).
Career in politics
He happened to be a founding member of the defunct National Party of Nigeria (NPN), which was formed from a political association, the National Movement, at the start of the Second Republic.
Nasarawa, his home state at the time, was part of the old Plateau state. Following that, he was elected Secretary of the NPN in Plateau state, and later Chairman.
Following the fall of the Second Republic in 1983, Adamu enrolled as a part-time student at the University of Jos to study law. By 1992, he had completed his studies and enrolled in the Nigeria Law School in Lagos.
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In 1994, the new APC chairman was appointed to the National Constitutional Conference convened by Sani Abacha’s military administration.
A year later, on November 17, 1997, Mr Adamu was appointed Minister of State for Works and Housing, a position he held until November 17, 1997.
When the Abacha administration lifted the political ban, he joined the defunct United Nigeria Congress Party (UNCP), on whose platform he planned to run for Nasarawa state governor. Following Abacha’s death in 1998, that process was halted.
Following the restoration of democracy in Nigeria in 1999, he joined the Peoples Democratic Party as a founding member (PDP). He contested and won the governorship of Nasarawa State. Between May 1999 and 2007, he served as governor for eight years.
Adamu chaired the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) from 1999 to 2004 while serving as governor.
In 2007, the year he left office, the former governor was elected to the Senate on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party to represent Nasarawa West Senatorial District.
He and ten other PDP senators joined the APC on January 29, 2014. The former governor was named Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture in the Senate.
He was appointed chairman of the Northern Senators Forum (NSF), but was ousted in 2018 amid allegations of “financial mismanagement and maladministration.”
Adamu and nine other Senators rejected the Senate’s passage of the election sequence during the amendment to the Electoral Act in 2019, which he later attributed to his removal as Northern Senators Forum.
Adamu was named chairman of the APC National Reconciliation Committee in September, an assignment that took him and members of his team to states where the party was factionalized or was in crisis.
Senator Adamu has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Benue Cement Company, Gboko, and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Nigerian Television Authority at various times (NTA).
He is a married man with five children who holds the traditional titles of Sarkin Yakin Keffi and Aare Obateru of the Source in Ife, Osun state.
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