Lawali Shuaibu
| Lawali Shuaibu | |
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| Senator for Zamfara North | |
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In office 29 May 1999 – 29 May 2007 |
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| Succeeded by | Sahabi Alhaji Yaú |
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18 April 1955 Kaura Namoda, Zamfara State, Nigeria |
| Political party | All Progressives Congress |
Lawali Shuaibu (born April 1955) was elected Senator for the Zamfara North constituency of Zamfara State, Nigeria at the start of the Nigerian Fourth Republic, running on the All People's Party (APP) platform. He took office on 29 May 1999. He was reelected on the All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP) platform in 2003 for a further four years.
Born in April 1955, Shuaibu obtained an HND in Marketing from Kaduna Polytechnic. He became Managing Director of the Trans Atlantic Shipping Agency, Apapa, Lagos.
After taking his seat in the Senate in June 1999, Shuaibu was appointed to committees on Security & Intelligence, Transport, State & Local Government and Drug & Narcotics (chairman). In August 2002 he was appointed to a three-man panel to investigate allegations that some Senators had accepted directions from the presidency to offer bribes to other Senators so they would abstain from voting to overturn President Olusegun Obasanjo's veto of the Electoral Bill 2002.
On reelection in 2003 Shuaibiu was appointed chairman of the committee on Drugs & Financial Crimes for the second time and a member of committees on Marine Transport, Sports & Social Developments and National Population. Shuaibiu's committee on Drugs and Financial Crimes overhauled the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) law to bring it into conformity with International standards. He was appointed Senate Minority Leader, and although a friend of senate president Ken Nnamani of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) he was a strong defender of ANPP interests.
In March 2004 Shuaibiu moved to set up an ad hoc committee to trace money received for the sale of government owned companies, which the committee on appropriations and finance could not locate in any government account. He was a delegate from Nigeria to the United Nations Conference for the 13th session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Vienna, Austria. He was also on the Nigerian delegation to the 11th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice which took place April 2005 in Bangkok, Thailand. Later in the year, Shuaibu was a member of the Nigerian delegation led by Senate President Ken Nnamani, that attended the United Nations Parliamentary Conference at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 10-September 2005. Shuaibiu was a leading member of the "2007 Movement" which successfully fought the proposal to amend the constitution so President Olusegun Obasanjo could run for a third term. In February 2007 he was appointed Chairman of a Senate Ad Hoc Committee investigating the list of politicians indicted by the EFCC to determine if President Obasanjo had doctored the EFCC advisory list, directing which politicians should be targeted. In March 2007 he said the list had been doctored but that Obasanjo had the authority to do so, although this was morally wrong.
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