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DOSSIER · SENATORUPDATED JUN 2026

Yahaya Abubakar Abdullahi

Senator, Kebbi North (Senatorial) · APC

Assessment Profile06

Senator Yahaya Abubakar Abdullahi has served Kebbi North continuously since 2015, ascending to Senate Majority Leader in the 9th Assembly (June 2019 to June 2022) under Senate President Ahmad Lawan. His legislative record as Majority Leader includes floor leadership on major bills including the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2021 and motions on the Finance Act. In the 10th Assembly he chaired the Committee on National Planning and Economic Affairs before being elevated in December 2025 to Chairman of the Senate Committee on National Security and Intelligence. A dual-party defection record -- APC to PDP in June 2022 after a disputed governorship primary, then PDP back to APC in May 2025 ahead of the 2027 elections -- is the most documented feature of his integrity record. Independently verified constituency delivery data for Kebbi North is thin: no published BudgIT or Tracka audit of his zonal intervention projects has been located. His academic and civil service background (permanent secretary, associate professor) gives him unusual policy depth, but specific documented legislative outputs from his own bill portfolio across all three terms remain incompletely catalogued in open public sources.

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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. 1Yahaya Abubakar AbdullahiWikipedia
  2. 2Abdullahi Yahaya emerges Senate majority leaderThe Guardian Nigeria · 2019-06-03
  3. 3Senate leader, Yahaya Abdullahi, dumps APC for PDPDaily Trust · 2022-06-08
  4. 4BREAKING: Senate Leader, Yahaya Abdullahi dumps APCVanguard News · 2022-06-08
  5. 5Breaking: Senate Leader Yahaya Abdullahi dumps APC, defects to PDPLegit.ng · 2022-06-08
  6. 6Senate re-amends Electoral Bill, approves direct, indirect primariesNational Assembly Nigeria · 2022-01-27
  7. 7Senate passes Electoral Act amendment billPM News Nigeria · 2021-11-09
  8. 8The Finance Act (Amendment) Bill, 2020 Scales Second Reading in the SenatePolicy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC) · 2020-01-01
  9. 9Senate reshuffles committees, appoints Abdullahi Yahaya as intelligence chairmanDaily Post Nigeria · 2025-12-02
  10. 10Akpabio reconstitutes Senate security committee, names new chairPremium Times Nigeria · 2025-12-02
  11. 11ICYMI: Uba Sani, Sam Onuigbo — five lawmakers make OrderPaper MVP hall of fameTheCable · 2023-05-01
  12. 12Yahaya Abdullahi: Tinubu's government losing credibility over failed budget executionTheCable · 2024-01-01
  13. 13UPDATED: Three PDP senators defect to APCPremium Times Nigeria · 2025-05-13
  14. 14PDP in dilemma as three Kebbi senators defectChannels Television · 2025-05-13