Mohammed Gobir Idris

Named running mate to Ahmad Aliyu on 12 July 2022 (announced by the Sokoto APC chairman at a Sokoto news conference). The ticket was declared winner on 19 March 2023 with 453,661 votes against 404,632 for the PDP's Sa'idu Umar, of 864,419 valid votes (52.48%, computed); sworn in 29 May 2023. He was a co-respondent in the PDP petition that questioned his qualifications and certificates; dismissed by the tribunal 30 Sep 2023, the Court of Appeal 27 Nov 2023 and the Supreme Court 25 Jan 2024 (see legal records).

INEC final list of candidates (Governorship, Sokoto State), published 2026-10-10 — SN 5; INEC name: MOHAMMED GOBIR IDRIS; age 50; male; qualification (as declared to INEC): UNIVERSITY FIRST SCHOOL LEAVING CERTIFICATE NATIONAL TECHNICAL CERTIFICATE ADVANCER NATIONAL TECH. CERTIFICATE; governorship candidate: Aliyu Ahmed Sokoto · Named by Governor Ahmad Aliyu as his running mate for a second term: Vanguard (15 July 2026) reports the governor's endorsement of Deputy Governor Idris Mohammed Gobir in a statement from the Deputy Governor's press office (a statement from his own office, used only for the fact of the endorsement); the day the pair were submitted to INEC was not found, and he appears as running mate on INEC's final list (10 October 2026). His 2023 running-mate selection was announced on 12 July 2022. INEC reading checked on the rendered PDF (pdftotext -bbox) and CORRECTED: the word UNIVERSITY that sits under the qualification cell between the two Sokoto APC rows belongs to the governorship candidate's cell (USMANU DANFODIYO UNIVERSITY), not to him; his own qualifications are FIRST SCHOOL LEAVING CERTIFICATE, NATIONAL TECHNICAL CERTIFICATE, ADVANCER NATIONAL TECH. CERTIFICATE (as INEC prints it), and the INEC line quoted at the start of this note (as first parsed) wrongly begins his qualification with UNIVERSITY. INEC's surname-first order MOHAMMED GOBIR IDRIS corresponds to press usage Idris Mohammed Gobir (Vanguard, Daily Trust).