1. Lawali Shuaibu was born on 18 April 1955 and is a Nigerian politician who was elected senator for the Zamfara North Senatorial District of Zamfara State, Nigeria at the start of the Nigerian Fourth Republic, running on the All People's Party platform.
Lawali Shuaibu was re-elected on the All Nigeria People's Party platform in 2003 to a second term of four years.
Lawali Shuaibu became managing director of the Trans Atlantic Shipping Agency, Apapa, Lagos.
Lawali Shuaibu was appointed Senate Minority Leader, and although a friend of senate president Ken Nnamani of the People's Democratic Party he was a strong defender of ANPP interests.
Lawali Shuaibu was a delegate from Nigeria to the United Nations Conference for the 13th session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Vienna, Austria.
Lawali Shuaibu was on the Nigerian delegation to the 11th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice which took place April 2005 in Bangkok, Thailand.
Later in the year, Lawali Shuaibu was a member of the Nigerian delegation led by Senate President Ken Nnamani, that attended the United Nations Parliamentary Conference at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 10 September 2005.
Mahmud Aliyu Shinkafi of the ANPP won with 415,455 votes and Yahaya Abdulkarim of the PDP won 122,351, while Lawali Shuaibu came third with 73,652 votes.
Lawali Shuaibu explained he was busy with Party work at the time and he did not believe in the integrity of Government in the proposed assignment.
Lawali Shuaibu was one of the leaders of the NDM involved in the debate over whether it should form a new "mega party" to present a consolidated opposition to the PDP.
At the National Convention of the Party in Benin City on 21 December 2010, Lawali Shuaibu contested and became the National Secretary of the ACN.
Lawali Shuaibu delivered a welcome address in which he gave a background of the event.
Lawali Shuaibu warned them to unite if they are serious on their aspirations to win the 2015 Presidential elections.