Ibrahim Muhammed Kirikasama

Ibrahim Mohammed Kirikasama
Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria from Jigawa State North East District
In office 29 May 1999 – 29 May 2007
Succeeded by	Abdulaziz Usman
Personal details
Born	February 1952 Kiri Kasama LGA, Jigawa State, Nigeria
Political party	All Nigeria People's Party

Ibrahim Mohammed Kirikasama^[1] (born February 1952) was elected Senator for the Jigawa North East constituency of Jigawa 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.^[2] He was reelected in April 2003 on the All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP) platform for a second four-year term.^[3]

After taking his seat in the Senate in June 1999 he was appointed to committees on Labour, Women Affairs, Agriculture, Information and Social Development & Sports.^[4] His constituency contains the ecologically and economically important wetlands on the Hadejia River, threatened by changes to water release due to the upriver Tiga Dam.^[5][6] In a May 2006 debate on the proposal to allow President Olusegun Obasanjo to run for a third term of office, Kirikasama opposed the proposal, describing it as an attempt at "legalising the illegality and constitutionalising unconstitutionality".^[7]

In the April 2007 elections, Kirikasama ran for governor of Jigawa State on the ANPP platform, but was defeated by Alhaji Sule Lamido on the People's Democratic Party by 523,940 votes to 260,055.^[8] His selection as candidate had been resisted by the state chapter of the ANPP.^[9] Kirikasama said he would not challenge Lamido's victory for "personal reasons".^[10]

References

1. Kirikasama is the name of the community into which Ibrahim Mohammed was born.
2. "FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 20 FEBRUARY AND 7 MARCH 1999". Psephos. Retrieved 21 June 2010.
3. "Senators". Dawodu. Retrieved 21 June 2010.
4. "Congressional Committees". Nigeria Congress. Archived from the original on 18 November 2009. Retrieved 21 June 2010.
5. Hassan H. Bdliya; Julian Barr; Steve Fraser (21 February 2006). "Institutional Failures in the Management of Critical Water Resources: The Case of the Komadugu-Yobe Basin in Nigeria" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 June 2011. Retrieved 21 June 2010.
6. "Sand Dunes Overrun Northern Settlements, Advance Southwards". ThisDay. 3 August 2004. Archived from the original on 26 January 2005. Retrieved 21 June 2010.
7. BASHIR UMAR; JAMES OJO; RAZAQ BAMIDELE (12 May 2006). "Senators knock out third term • 44 against, 39 for • 21 reps for, 18 against". Daily Sun. Archived from the original on 5 August 2007. Retrieved 21 June 2010.
8. "How The Parties Fared". The Source Magazine. 30 April 2007. Retrieved 21 June 2010.^{[permanent dead link]}
9. Abdulsalam Muhammad (15 February 2007). "Caucus Rejects ANPP Guber Flag Bearer in Jigawa". Vanguard. Retrieved 21 June 2010.
10. Michael Egbejumi-David. "Election Tribunals' Update 2: 1st August 2008". Point Blank News. Retrieved 21 June 2010.