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Ahmad Abubakar

PEP · Politician

Ahmad Abubakar is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Ahmad Abubakar				[sources]
Alias	Abubakar Abdullahi Ahmed · Ahmad Moallahyidi Abubakar · Sen Ahmad Abubakar				[sources]
Birth date	1957-09-05				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Nigeria				[sources]
Citizenship	Nigeria				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
Phone	+2348037865570				[sources]
Political association	All Progressives Congress				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q61743048				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	en.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	Senate (member, 2015-) · member of the House of Representatives of Nigeria (2020-) · member of the Senate of Nigeria (2015-2019)				[sources]
Education	Ahmadu Bello University				[sources]
Religion	Islam				[sources]
Last change	2026-04-11	Last processed	2026-05-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Nigerian politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-20

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the Senate of Nigeria	2015	2019

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories358,337

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Nigeria Joining the Dots PEPs and PEP Relatives4,291

Data on Politically Exposed Persons in Nigeria and their relatives from the Joining the Dots project.

Nigeria · Directorio Legislativo/EITI · non-official source

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,464

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons291,259

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata344,656

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,944

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-0b536a2c-2bc9-46a0-8d40-0deb9241cb31 · ng-dots-ahmad-abubakar-1957-09-05-district

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