Shehu Hussaini

Candidate of the Independent Democrats (ID) for Governor of Zamfara State; the party has no row here, so no party is linked. INEC's final list of 27 January 2015 prints him as "SHEHU HUSSAINI WAZIRI", age 44, NCE, with Alh. Abubakar Bala Dakamde as running mate. Identity: the same name parts, state and INEC age series as the 2019 HDP candidate and the 2027 AA running mate (44 in 2015, 48 in 2019, 56 in 2026), and the same NCE. Poll day was Saturday 11 April 2015; the returning officer declared Governor Abdulaziz Yari (APC) re-elected on Monday 13 April 2015 with 716,964 votes (Mamuda Shinkafi, PDP, 201,938). His own vote count was not found: INEC's 2015 Zamfara result sheet is not online and the press reported only the leading candidates.

Zamfara State chairman of the Hope Democratic Party, reported as such on 5 March 2019, when he spoke for 40 of the 46 parties in the state in praising INEC's conduct of the presidential and National Assembly elections (NAN). He was the party's governorship candidate that year. The start year is the earliest dated report; the end year is the party's deregistration by INEC on 6 February 2020.

Candidate of the Hope Democratic Party (HDP) for Governor of Zamfara State; the HDP was deregistered by INEC on 6 February 2020 and has no row here, so no party is linked. INEC's 2019 final list prints him as "KUCHERI SHEHU HUSSAINI", age 48, NCE, with Sha'aibu Maryam as running mate; he was also the Zamfara HDP state chairman at the time. Poll day was Saturday 9 March 2019. The Supreme Court on 24 May 2019 declared the APC's 534,541 votes wasted, and INEC's post-judgment result gives him 36 votes and declares Bello Mohammed Matawalle (PDP, 189,452) elected. No vote share is stored: the post-judgment sheet gives no total of valid votes.

INEC final list of candidates (Presidential), published 2026-09-12 — SN 1; INEC name: SHEHU HUSSAINI; age 56; male; qualification (as declared to INEC): FSLC G.S.S, Yabo F.C.E Zaria Running mate to Rufai Adekunle Omoaje (Omo-Aje) on the Action Alliance (AA) ticket. The AA chairmen of the 19 northern states nominated him, the National Working Committee endorsed him, and the party unveiled him on 16 July 2026 (Nigerian Tribune); he was then the AA chairman in Zamfara State and remained so during the campaign. He had been the Zamfara AA governorship candidate since the state congress of 28 May 2026 and gave that ticket up; the party substituted Muhammad Tambari S. Kaya on 15 September 2026. He was on INEC's display of candidates' particulars of 1 August 2026 and is on the final list of 12 September 2026 (SN 1: age 56, male, "FSLC G.S.S, Yabo F.C.E Zaria"). Poll day is 16 January 2027.

State chairman of the Action Alliance in Zamfara. On Thursday 2 October 2025 he announced in Gusau that INEC had recognised his executive, aligned with the party's national chairman Adekunle Omoaje, as the authentic one, ending a leadership tussle of more than a year that a court had resolved; no report names him as a litigant. He launched the party's digital membership registration in the state on 2 March 2026, was returned as chairman by consensus at a state congress in Gusau reported on 31 March 2026, and spoke for the chapter after the attack on Omoaje in Osun State on 27 June 2026. He was still chairman in August 2026, as the party's vice-presidential candidate. No start year is stored: the earliest dated report is October 2025, and by his account he had led or claimed the chapter since 2024 or earlier.