Senate, on Tuesday, resolved to send a delegation to condole the people and government of Yobe State over the death of former governor of state and senator, Bukar Abba Ibrahim.
The upper legislative chamber also held a minute silence to honour the deceased who was a three-time Senator between 2007 and 2019; and former governor of the state.
The resolution was sequel to a motion sponsored under Order 42 of the Senate Standing Orders during plenary by the former Senate President Senator Ahmad Lawan and unanimously adopted by other lawmakers.
The President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, named Senator Adamu Aliero (PDP Kebbi Central) as the leader of the delegation and Senators Ahmad Lawan (APC Yobe North), Danjuma Goje (APC Gombe Central), Victor Umeh (LP Anambra Central), Saliu Mustapha (APC Kwara Central), Ibrahim Bomai (APC Yobe South), Ahmed Wadada (SDP Nasarawa West) as members.
Akpabio had also led a minute silence prayer in honour of the deceased as part of the adopted prayers of the motion.
Presenting the motion under the personal explanation order, Lawan drew the attention of his colleagues to the death of Senator Ibrahim which occurred on Sunday, February 4, 2024.
He noted that the late Ibrahim was born on the 1st of October, 1949, and hailed from Goniri town in Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State.
The former Senate President further notes that, “the young Bukar was enrolled at age seven for his primary education at the Goniri Central Primary School in 1957 and rounded up in 1964. He then proceeded for his secondary education at the Government College, Maiduguri, in Borno State, between 1965 and 1970, and obtained the General Certificate of Education (GCE) upon completion of his studies.
“Determined to make his pursuit for higher education a reality, Senator Ibrahim enrolled for the Preliminary Science programme at one of Nigeria’s premier institutions, the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, for a duration of two years – between 1970 and 1972.
“He was then admitted to a full-time programme at the same university to study for his first degree in 1972. Three years later, he graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Quantity Survey in 1975.
“Senator Ibrahim was, thereafter, deployed to the Federal Ministry of Education for the mandatory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme and served between July 1975 and August 1976.
“Upon completion of the one-year NYSC scheme, he gained employment as a Pupil Quantity Surveyor with the Borno State Ministry of Works, Land and Survey in September, 1976. His productivity during the course of service pivoted him to become a Principal Quantity Surveyor, and Acting Head of Department six years later, in 1982.
“Driven by his quest for education, Senator Bukar Abba Ibrahim embarked on a Post Graduate Professional Training in the United Kingdom (1981–1982), which earned him Membership of the Institute of Cost Engineers, United Kingdom; and Associate Membership of the Nigeria Institute of Quantity Surveyors in 1983.
“Senator Bukar Abba Ibrahim, in his bid to explore the private sector, had a short stint with Partnership in Konti-Sab Associates, between 1982 and 1985. He was later appointed in 1985 as Honourable Commissioner for Works, Housing, Transport, Land and Survey, in Borno State, a position he held until 1988,” he explained.
