Isa Yuguda

The other northern PDP governors – Ibrahim Shema (Katsina) Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko (Sokoto) Isa Yuguda (Bauchi) and Admiral (Retired) Murtala Nyako (Adamawa) – are equally clear that Jonathan should not run in 2015 but less confident of their own chances of winning the PDP nomination...

Isa Yuguda Governor of Bauchi State which has been singled out for militant attacks says the religiously devout followers of Boko Haram will take up the amnesty offer but predicts it will be rejected by its ‘political’ and ‘criminal’ factions...

In late June Bauchi State Governor Isa Yuguda confirmed that China Machinery Engineering Corporation will build a 180-MW thermal power plant at a cost of $260mn...

Conscious of Boko Haram’s growing strength its Spokesman ‘Abu Zaid’ demanded apologies from northern politicians like Sherriff Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State and Danjuma Goje of Gombe State – and got them...

One governor abstained and another Bauchi's Isa Yuguda (son-in-law of the late Yar'Adua) was absent...

The most likely candidates include Kwara State Governor Abubakar Bukola Saraki (who has cleverly distanced himself from Yar'Adua) Jigawa State Governor Suleu Lamido Bauchi State Governor Isa Yuguda and Ribadu as a long shot...

We hear Governors Isa Yuguda (Bauchi State) Bukola Saraki (Kwara) Usman Sa’idu Dakingari (Kebbi) Ibrahim Shema (Katsina) and Mohammed Danjuma Goje (Gombe) met Yar’Adua’s group to warn of the heightening political tension over the power vacuum...

Turai’s political base is Katsina State where her husband served two terms as Governor; she also wields influence through her two sons-in-law Usman Sa’idu Nasamu Dakingari and Isa Yuguda Governors of Kebbi and Bauchi states respectively...

The possible candidates for Vice-President remain pretty much the same: state governors Abubakar Bukola Saraki (Kwara) Sule Lamido (Jigawa) Isa Yuguda (Bauchi) Ibrahim Shema (Katsina) as well as former director of military intelligence Aliyu Mohammed Gusau (AC Vol 50 No 25)...

Turai and her allies – Katsina State Governor Ibrahim Shema Bauchi Governor Isa Yuguda Presidential Economic Advisor Tanimu Yakubu and Agriculture Minister Abba Sayyadi Ruma – hoped to assuage Delta militants with an allocation of 114 bn...