Abdullahi Garba Aminchi

Abdullahi Garba Aminchi (born 11 March 1954) in Funtua LGA, Katsina State, Nigeria, was the deputy governor of the short lived NRC government led by Alhaji Saidu Barda from 1992 to 1993. He was the deputy to the then Governor Umaru Musa Yar'Adua in 2003.[1][2] He also held the position of Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Oman during the Umaru Musa Yar’adua presidential regime from 2007.[3][4]

Abdullahi Garba Aminchi
Born11 March 1954
Funtua LGA, Katsina State
NationalityNigeria
EducationKaduna Polytechnic Bayero University

Early life and education

Abdullahi Garba was born on 11 March 1954 in Funtua LGA, Katsina. He studied engineering at Kaduna Polytechnic. He later received a diploma in legal studies from the Bayero University Kano.

Career

Abdullahi Garba left the engineering field to join politics. He started as a party secretary, then councilor to chairman and later deputy governor to Saidu Barda in 1992 and in 2003 to Umaru Musa Yar'Adua.[5] After governor Umaru Musa Yar'Adua contested for the presidency and won in 2007, Garba was made Nigeria's ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Oman.[6]

References
  1. "How Yar'adua short-changed Southern Katsina". Sahara Reporters. 2009-06-29. Retrieved 2022-06-16.
  2. Daily, Peoples (2014-11-13). "Garba Aminci joins Katsina guber race under APC". Peoples Daily Newspaper. Retrieved 2022-06-16.
  3. Kperogi, Farooq A. "Yar'adua's Health: Amb. Aminchi's Impossible Grammatical Logic". Notes From Atlanta. Retrieved 2022-06-16.
  4. "BBCHausa.com | Labarai | Yar'adua ya samu sauki matuka". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 2022-06-16.
  5. "Rashin karbar gyara ya sa na fita daga PDP – Garba Aminchi". Aminiya. 2014-10-09. Retrieved 2022-06-16.
  6. "How Yar'adua short-changed Southern Katsina". Sahara Reporters. 2009-06-29. Retrieved 2022-06-16.
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