Abdul'aziz Abubakar Yari

Two-term Governor of Zamfara State (2011–2019, ANPP/APC) and Chairman of the Nigerian Governors' Forum from 2015. Multiple anti-corruption agency actions: in 2019 the ICPC secured a final forfeiture order before Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu (FHC Abuja) of N278.9 million and US$669,248 traced to Yari under section 48 of the Corrupt Practices Act, after he failed to show good cause; in March 2022 the ICPC obtained an interim forfeiture order from Justice Obiora Egwuatu over 10 properties in Abuja, Kaduna, Zamfara and Maryland, USA. In May 2022 the EFCC arrested Yari over the N84 billion Accountant-General Ahmed Idris fraud, alleging he received N22 billion through Finex Professional Services. A multi-year EFCC investigation into alleged Paris Club refund diversion (including a $3m Lagos hotel) ran circa 2017–2022. The Auditor General's Schedule of Forfeited Bank Accounts lists Yari with two finally forfeited bank accounts totalling N12.9m + $56k. Successor administration (Matawalle, 2020) also alleged N37bn diversion of federal project refunds and a N350m last-day-of-office wire transfer to a real-estate firm — political-handover allegations that have not been independently corroborated in the corpus.