Bindo Umaru Jibrilla

Senator Bindo Umaru Jibrilla (also known as Muhammad Umar Jibrilla, "Bindow"; b. 16 June 1963, Adamawa State) is a Nigerian businessman (Highland Bank of Nigeria director; Jimpex Energy Service executive; founder of Bindow Vegetable Oil Industries, Bindowo Agro-Allied, and Bindo Soap & Aluminum Industries) and politician who served as Governor of Adamawa State from 29 May 2015 to 29 May 2019 on the APC platform, having defected from PDP ahead of the 2015 race after losing the PDP gubernatorial primary; previously Senator for Adamawa North (2011–2015, PDP, vice-chair of the Senate Committee on Defence and Army). He lost re-election to Ahmadu Fintiri in 2019 and defected back to PDP in January 2023 to support Atiku Abubakar's presidential bid. Post-handover, multiple credible-press outlets have reported on EFCC investigative interest in his administration's finances. The corpus carries three distinct allegation-threads: (i) a Peoples Gazette / Blueprint report on an EFCC "intelligence department" forensic probe that allegedly identified ₦62 billion in stolen / diverted / laundered funds from Adamawa bank accounts under his tenure; (ii) a January 2023-era Independent Newspaper / Nigerian News Leader report that the EFCC was "trailing" him over a separate ~₦400 billion scam allegation around his defection back to PDP, including reporting that an EFCC team had reportedly attempted to arrest him at his Yola residence and missed him; (iii) a Dream Daily report of an Adamawa State House of Assembly lawmaker's EFCC petition over a ₦3 billion overdraft. **No formal EFCC charge or arraignment is recorded in the corpus** — all material is at the petition / investigation / agency-intelligence stage. Recommend `alleged` archive status with an editorial note that the ₦62bn and ₦400bn figures are reported allegations rather than indictment-stage figures, and that the absence of a formal EFCC charge as of the corpus's date should be flagged for editor follow-up. Bindow's signature g