Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed

Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed, CON (b. 5 October 1958, Duguri Town, Alkaleri LGA, Bauchi State) is a Nigerian journalist-turned-civil-servant-turned-politician who is the **current (sitting) Governor of Bauchi State** since 29 May 2019 on the PDP platform, re-elected in 2023, with his 2019 victory upheld by the Supreme Court on 20 January 2020 (he defeated the incumbent APC Governor Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar). University of Maiduguri BA English (1982); early journalism career as News Editor at The Mirage Newspaper Jos (1982–1984) and State Editor at The Democrat Newspaper Benue; reporter for the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). Federal Civil Service from 1984, rising to Director of Administration and Supplies at the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) before voluntarily retiring for politics. **Senator for Bauchi South 2007–2010** on the ANPP platform; on 10 February 2010 he was the senator whose vote for the **"doctrine of necessity"** resolution effectively made Goodluck Jonathan Acting President — historically inflected as "breaking Nigeria's tripodal political glass ceiling" in his nodes summary. **FCT Minister 8 April 2010 – 28 May 2015** under President Jonathan (he crossed from ANPP to PDP on appointment); the substantive infrastructure legacy of his FCT-Minister tenure includes the Abuja–Kaduna rail completion, the Kubwa expressway, the land-swap policy, and satellite-town development in Abuja. **The substantive corruption matters:** (i) the EFCC arrested him in **June/July 2016** (post-FCT) and detained him for **49 days**; an Abuja High Court (per his own index.md narrative) subsequently **declared the detention illegal** and awarded him **₦5 million in compensation** — Mohammed has consistently characterised the detention as politically motivated; (ii) per the EFCC's own January 2026 public statements (Channels TV, ThisDay, Guardian Nigeria, The Nation), Mohammed **"was standing trial for money laundering before the case was put in abeyance when he became th