Abdou Labo

Abdou Labo is a Nigerien politician and a member of the Democratic and Social Convention (CDS-Rahama). He briefly served in the government of Niger as Minister of Defense from 1994 to 1995, and under President Mamadou Tandja he held a succession of ministerial posts in the 2000s: he was Minister of Equipment from 2000 to 2002, Minister of State for Sports and Culture from 2002 to 2004, and Minister of State for Hydraulics from 2004 to 2007. Later, under President Mahamadou Issoufou, he served as Minister of State for the Interior from 2011 to 2013 and as Minister of State for Agriculture from 2013 to 2014.

Following the 1993 elections, in which CDS leader Mahamane Ousmane was elected as President of Niger and the coalition that included the CDS won a parliamentary majority, Labo was appointed as Secretary of State for Communication, working under the Minister of Communication, Culture, Youth and Sports, Hassoumi Massoudou, on 23 April 1993. He served in that position until being appointed as Minister of National Defense in the government of Prime Minister Souley Abdoulaye on 5 October 1994; that government served only briefly, however, and Labo left the government after the CDS lost the January 1995 parliamentary election.

The 1999 parliamentary election was won by an alliance of the National Movement for the Development of Society (MNSD) and the CDS, and Labo was appointed as Minister of Equipment and Transport on 5 January 2000. His ministerial portfolio was modified on 17 September 2001, when he was appointed as Minister of Equipment, Housing, and Territorial Administration, and on 8 November 2002 he was promoted to the post of Minister of State for Sports, Culture, and the Francophone Games. Following the December 2004 parliamentary election, in which Labo was elected as a CDS candidate to the National Assembly from Maradi constituency, Labo remained in the government and was appointed as Minister of State for Hydraulics, the Environment, and the Fight Against Desertification on 30 December 2004.

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