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Ibrahim Mohammed Baba, popularly known as IMBA, is the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Bauchi North Senatorial District in the Senate election of 16 January 2027 (INEC final list, 12 September 2026, where he appears as Baba Ibrahim Mohammed). INEC lists him as a 50-year-old man whose declared qualifications are the First School Leaving Certificate and the Senior School Certificate. He is from Azare in Katagum…
Ibrahim Mohammed Baba, popularly known as IMBA, is the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Bauchi North Senatorial District in the Senate election of 16 January 2027 (INEC final list, 12 September 2026, where he appears as Baba Ibrahim Mohammed). INEC lists him as a 50-year-old man whose declared qualifications are the First School Leaving Certificate and the Senior School Certificate. He is from Azare in Katagum Local Government Area. Before elective politics he was a personal assistant and later special assistant on telecommunications to a former Bauchi State governor, and an aide to the North East commissioner on the NDDC board; a biography site also says he worked as a finance officer at NITEL. Elected on the APC platform on 28 March 2015 (38,151 votes to 23,535 for Auwalu Gwalabe of the PDP), he represented Katagum Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019 (8th Assembly) and was deputy chairman of the Committee on Public Accounts. He won APC renomination but lost the 23 February 2019 election to Umar Abdulkadir Sarki of the PRP (23,680 to 18,976). An election tribunal nullified Sarki's return on his petition on 29 August 2019, but the Court of Appeal in Jos set that judgment aside and upheld Sarki's election (reported 14 October 2019). In July 2019 Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila appointed him Special Assistant on Executive Relations. In May 2022 he narrowly lost the APC Bauchi North senatorial primary to Sirajo Ibrahim Tanko (189 to 177 delegate votes). He then moved to the Social Democratic Party (SDP), was its Bauchi North candidate in the Senate election of 25 February 2023, which Samaila Dahuwa Kaila of the PDP won, and rejoined the APC in Azare on 13 May 2023. In August 2024 the National Assembly leadership named him a federal commissioner (Bauchi) of the Public Complaints Commission. In the APC direct primary held on 18 May 2026 he was declared winner of the Bauchi North ticket with 22,744 votes, defeating the incumbent senator Samaila Dahuwa Kaila (12,912) and Sirajo Ibrahim Tanko (5,202); Kaila disputed that a genuine primary took place and moved to the PRP.
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All Progressives Congress · Katagum · Bauchi
Won Katagum Federal Constituency on the APC platform (served 2015-2019). Poll day = the 28 March 2015 National Assembly elections; result declared in Azare on Monday 30 March 2015: Ibrahim Mohammed Baba (APC) 38,151, Awalu (Auwalu) Gwalabe (PDP) 23,535.
Katagum · Bauchi
Reason recorded for departure: Term end.
All Progressives Congress · Katagum · Bauchi
Sought and won APC renomination for Katagum for the 2019 election (he was the APC candidate on 23 Feb 2019). Primary day and votes not found; in August 2018 an anti-corruption group petitioned the APC national chairman alleging state-government backing for him to buy delegate votes, which the governor's spokesman denied (no finding reported).
House of Representatives, Office of the Speaker (Femi Gbajabiamila)
Appointed Special Assistant on Executive Relations to Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila with immediate effect in a list published by the National Assembly on 16 July 2019 (most of the appointees were former members). End date not found.
All Progressives Congress · Katagum · Bauchi
Incumbent; lost to Umar Abdulkadir Sarki (PRP). Poll Saturday 23 February 2019; result declared in Azare on Monday 25 February 2019: Sarki (PRP) 23,680, Ibrahim Mohammed Baba (APC) 18,976, Garba Dogo (NNPP) 8,983, Maula Adamu (PDP) 4,867 (NAN via Daily Trust). His petition succeeded at the Bauchi tribunal (29 Aug 2019: election should have been declared inconclusive, rerun…
Incumbent; lost to Umar Abdulkadir Sarki (PRP). Poll Saturday 23 February 2019; result declared in Azare on Monday 25 February 2019: Sarki (PRP) 23,680, Ibrahim Mohammed Baba (APC) 18,976, Garba Dogo (NNPP) 8,983, Maula Adamu (PDP) 4,867 (NAN via Daily Trust). His petition succeeded at the Bauchi tribunal (29 Aug 2019: election should have been declared inconclusive, rerun ordered) but the Court of Appeal, Jos, set that aside and upheld Sarki (reported 14 Oct 2019).
All Progressives Congress · Bauchi North · Bauchi
APC delegate primary for the Bauchi North senatorial ticket (2023 cycle), results reported 31 May 2022: Sirajo Ibrahim Tanko 189, Ibrahim Mohammed Baba ('Imba') 177, incumbent Senator Adamu Bulkachuwa 0 (Daily Trust). The Bauchi APC senatorial primaries concluded in the early hours of Monday 30 May 2022; exact poll day not stated. He then left the APC and stood for the SDP in…
APC delegate primary for the Bauchi North senatorial ticket (2023 cycle), results reported 31 May 2022: Sirajo Ibrahim Tanko 189, Ibrahim Mohammed Baba ('Imba') 177, incumbent Senator Adamu Bulkachuwa 0 (Daily Trust). The Bauchi APC senatorial primaries concluded in the early hours of Monday 30 May 2022; exact poll day not stated. He then left the APC and stood for the SDP in the general election.
Social Democratic Party · Bauchi North · Bauchi
SDP candidate for Bauchi North; seat won by Samaila Dahuwa Kaila (PDP) with 102,043 votes against Sirajo Tanko (APC) 100,246, declared in Azare on 28 February 2023 (NAN). Baba's own vote figure not found.
Rejoined the APC in Azare on Saturday 13 May 2023 (earlier APC member, elected Rep on its platform in 2015); APC candidate for Bauchi North on INEC's final list (12 September 2026).
Current affiliation in the reviewed membership record.
Public Complaints Commission
Named a commissioner of the Public Complaints Commission (Bauchi) by the National Assembly leadership on 24 August 2024. Inauguration and exit dates not found.
All Progressives Congress · Bauchi North · Bauchi
constituency: Bauchi North Senatorial District · also listed as: Baba Ibrahim Mohammed, Ibrahim Baba, Ibrahim Muhammad Baba · INEC final list of candidates (Senate), published 2026-09-12 — SN 25, p.19; INEC name: BABA IBRAHIM MOHAMMED; age 50; male; qualification (as declared to INEC): FLSC SSCE · Primary: APC direct primary for Bauchi North held Monday 18 May 2026 (the date…
constituency: Bauchi North Senatorial District · also listed as: Baba Ibrahim Mohammed, Ibrahim Baba, Ibrahim Muhammad Baba · INEC final list of candidates (Senate), published 2026-09-12 — SN 25, p.19; INEC name: BABA IBRAHIM MOHAMMED; age 50; male; qualification (as declared to INEC): FLSC SSCE · Primary: APC direct primary for Bauchi North held Monday 18 May 2026 (the date fixed for APC Senate primaries nationally); result announced that day in Bauchi by Brig. Gen. Saidu Abdulhameed (retd): Ibrahim Mohammed Baba 22,744, Samaila Dahuwa Kaila (incumbent senator) 12,912, Sirajo Ibrahim Tanko 5,202 (Tribune, Daily Post; Leadership and The Guardian print 22,764 for Baba). · Kaila later said there was no genuine primary in Bauchi North and that he left before it concluded (Tribune interview, 13 June 2026); no court challenge to Baba's nomination was found.
APC member by the 2015 election (elected Rep for Katagum on its platform; joining date not found); APC candidate again in 2019 and an aspirant in its Bauchi North Senate primary concluded 30 May 2022. end_date is the LAST day he is reported in the APC (lower bound): he left afterwards for the SDP, exit day not found. The Tribune (2023) dates the break to before 2019, which the 2019 and 2022 reports contradict.
Institute of Chartered Economists of Nigeria
Professional membership listed in the Speaker's 2019 appointment profile.
Institute of Cost and Management Accountants
Professional membership listed in the Speaker's 2019 appointment profile.
Alumnus (programme not stated)
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Bauchi State Government (Office of the Governor)
Personal Assistant and later Special Assistant on Telecommunications to a former Governor of Bauchi State (governor and years not named in the source).
Deputy · House
The end of this committee role is not recorded.
SDP candidate for Bauchi North in the 25 February 2023 Senate election; resigned from the SDP on 13 May 2023. Date joined not found.
Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Board
Listed in the Speaker's 2019 appointment profile; years not stated.
Master's degree (Finance) · Finance
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