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DOSSIER · SENATORUPDATED JUN 2026

Garba Musa Maidoki

Senator, Kebbi South (Senatorial) · APC

Assessment Profile06

Senator Garba Musa Maidoki won the February 2023 Kebbi South senatorial election on a PDP ticket, defeating incumbent Bala Ibn Na'Allah with 75,232 votes to 70,785. His documented legislative output in the 10th Senate is confined to plenary contributions on insecurity and electricity tariffs; no bill sponsored by him has been independently verified in open-access parliamentary records. He chairs the Senate Committee on Legislative Compliance and serves as Vice Chairman of the Committee on Information and National Orientation, but no public hearings or committee reports attributable to him have been located. Constituency delivery evidence is absent from independent sources: in August 2024 residents of Yauri Local Government Area filed a recall petition with INEC alleging bad roads, dilapidated schools, inadequate health facilities, and insecurity, a petition the PDP subsequently characterised as coming from faceless people. Maidoki attracted national attention for public statements on banditry in Kebbi South, claiming in plenary that the governor's N500 million monthly security allocation was not producing results; the state government disputed his characterisation. After the November 2025 abduction of schoolgirls from GGCSS Maga in his senatorial district, he publicly stated he had failed his people. His integrity axis is complicated by two recorded party defections within three years: from PDP to APC in May 2025 and from APC in May 2026 ahead of a senatorial primary. No EFCC, ICPC, or court criminal proceedings have been filed against him. The overall record shows active vocal advocacy on security but thin evidenced delivery, no verified bill sponsorship, and a pattern of party switching that raises accountability questions.

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Legal Record07

No court or anti-graft case on public record in this archive as of compilation. Absence of a record is not a clearance.

This grade rates performance in office, not any person’s guilt. Criminal matters appear above only as their court status. How we grade.

Sources14
  1. 12023: It's time to look up to Mai Doki for salvation, group tells Kebbi SouthBlueprint Newspapers · 2023-01-01
  2. 2Insecurity: Kebbi governor gives army N500m monthly for operations - SenatorPremium Times Nigeria · 2024-05-01
  3. 3Lawan, Yari, Tambuwal, Oshiomhole, Musa, Others Emerge Senate Committee ChairmenThis Day Live · 2023-08-09
  4. 4Senate Moves to Salvage Nigeria's Power Sector with Bold Legislative OverhaulThis Day Live · 2025-07-10
  5. 5Kebbi Residents Petition INEC Chairman to Recall LawmakersNigerian Democratic Report · 2024-08-07
  6. 6Maga Abduction: 'I Have Failed My People,' Kebbi South Senator Maidoki Laments After Schoolgirls KidnappedOpinion Nigeria · 2025-11-17
  7. 7Kebbi Govt faults Senator Maidoki's claims of 200 villages displaced by insecurityThe Sun Nigeria · 2025-11-01
  8. 8Kebbi Govt blasts Senator Maidoki over security, project claimsDaily Post Nigeria · 2025-11-23
  9. 9Kebbi PDP moves to protect Senator Maidoki, exonerates him from insecurity in Southern Senatorial districtThe Sun Nigeria · 2024-08-01
  10. 10UPDATED: Three PDP senators defect to APCPremium Times Nigeria · 2025-05-13
  11. 11Kebbi: Senator Garba Maidoki dumps APC ahead of senatorial primaryDaily Post Nigeria · 2026-05-16
  12. 12APC disqualifies Kebbi South senator, Maidoki, 46 othersBusinessDay NG · 2026-05-01
  13. 13Kebbi APC slams Senator Maidoki over alleged inciting remarksDaily Post Nigeria · 2026-05-20
  14. 14Meet 11 members of the 10th National Assembly from Kebbi StateParliament Reports · 2023-08-01