Boniface "Boni" Haruna

Boni Haruna (b. 12 June 1957 or 1958, Kubi, Michika LGA, Adamawa State) is a Nigerian politician who served as Governor of Adamawa State on the PDP platform from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2007 (two terms; the 2003 election result was contested unsuccessfully by the ANPP). An Ahmadu Bello University Political Science graduate (1981), former lecturer and political administrator. He subsequently served as Federal Minister of Youth Development under President Goodluck Jonathan. In August 2008 the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (then chaired by Farida Waziri) arrested and arraigned Haruna over alleged corruption during his Adamawa tenure; an Abuja court initially refused his bail application. In **November 2008** he was arraigned on the charge — Reuters reported the EFCC's allegation as the stealing of approximately ₦93 million (about $786,000), making him the ninth Nigerian ex-governor formally charged with embezzlement in the post-2007 EFCC sweep. The matter was tried at the Federal High Court and Haruna was **discharged and acquitted** of an alleged ₦52.5 million fraud (Vanguard, May 2024 — Haruna himself publicly correcting inflated social-media revivals that had ballooned the figure to "₦93 billion"). Schema-strict status is **`alleged`** with editorial note that the underlying EFCC case ended in court acquittal. Recommend `alleged` archive entry with the editorial note that this was an arraigned-then-acquitted matter and the inflated "₦93 billion" figure circulating in some downstream coverage is unsupported. The brief's framing of "various Adamawa-era allegations" matches the corpus; the brief's prior characterisation reading "convicted then acquitted" is **incorrect for Haruna** — that pattern belongs to Bala Ngilari above; Haruna was arraigned then acquitted without an intervening conviction.