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Abdullahi Abubakar Yahaya

Politician

Abdullahi Abubakar Yahaya 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	Abdullahi Abubakar Yahaya · Yahaya Abubakar Abdullahi · عبد الله أبو بكر يحيى				[sources]
Birth date	1905-04-05 · 1950-12-10				[sources]
Place of birth	Argungu				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Nigeria				[sources]
Citizenship	Nigeria				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Abdullahi · Abubakar				[sources]
Last name	Yahaya				[sources]
Middle name	Abubakar				[sources]
Political association	All Progressives Congress · Peoples Democratic Party				[sources]
Title	Sen.				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q84991358				[sources]
Position	member of the Senate of Nigeria (2015-2019) · member of the Senate of Nigeria (2019-) · member of the Senate of Nigeria (2019-2023) · member of the Senate of Nigeria (2023-)				[sources]
Education	Ahmadu Bello University				[sources]
Address	No. 3 Alungwaje road, Kebbi State				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-15	Last processed	2026-02-04	First seen	2023-07-18

Descriptions

Nigerian politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Kebbi North	-	-
member of the Senate of Nigeria	2019-06-11	-

Data sources

Nigerian Politically Exposed Persons data by Chipper40,806

National and sub-national Nigerian Politically Exposed Persons collected by Chipper

Nigeria · Chipper · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,237

Profiles of politically exposed persons 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

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories383,747

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions472,708

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata333,864

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-b2bc284e-eb6a-474f-a7e6-629ba07b5d44 · ng-dots-yahaya-abubakar-abdullahi-1950-12-10-district-kebbi · ng-chip-pep-ng-0017421

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