Nuhu Aliyu
| Nuhu Aliyu Labbo | |
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| National Senator | |
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In office May 1999 – May 2011 |
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| Succeeded by | Ibrahim Musa |
| Constituency | Niger North |
| Personal details | |
| Born | June 1941 (age 76) Niger State, Nigeria |
| Political party | People's Democratic Party (PDP) |
| Profession | Politician |
Nuhu Aliyu Labbo is a Nigerian politician elected to the Senate for the Niger North constituency of Niger State in 1999 and was reelected in 2003 and 2007.
Nuhu Aliyu was born in June 1941. He studied Advance Police Management at the Police Staff College in Jos. He became a Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police. In June 1994 the arrest of opposition leader Moshood Abiola in Lagos triggered demonstrations. Abiola had been elected president of Nigeria in 1993, but the election results were annulled by the preceding military president Ibrahim Babangida. DIG Nuhu Aliyu was responsible for stepping up security to maintain the peace.
As Deputy Inspector-General of Police he was in charge of the Force Criminal Investigations Department (FCID). Aliyu was state chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Niger State before his election to the senate.
Aliyu was elected in 1999 as a member of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) for the Niger North constituency and appointed chair of the Upper House committee on Police Affairs.
In January 2001, after the Senate had rejected liberalisation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry, Aliyu said this was because the Senate had not been consulted. Early in 2002, the Senate made a move to impeach president Obasanjo. In November 2002 it emerged that senators and representative had been paid to drop the proceedings. Nuhu Aliyu said he was asked to collect his share of the impeachment booty but that he declined. In January 2003, as Senate Committee chairman on Security and Intelligence, Aliyu advised the house not to conduct the screening of three proposed ministers in haste and later come back and complain about the behaviour of the nominees.
Nuhu Aliyu was reelected in 2003. In May 2003, the Senate passed the Hydro-Electric Power Commission Bill, which Aliyu co-sponsored. In October 2003 he co-sponsored a motion that criticized the withholding of local government council allocations and grants by state governments.
In January 2004 his guest house in Kontagora, Niger State was burned during riots that followed a disputed local election. In February 2004, he attended a meeting of the Niger State caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party, which issued a declaration that the creation of seventeen additional local government councils was permanent and the elections on January 10, 2004 were valid.
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