Muktar Shagari was later appointed President of the African Ministers Council On Water.
19 Facts About Muktar Shagari
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Muktar Shagari held office until January 2007 when he left to compete for Deputy Governor of Sokoto State.
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Muktar Shagari was elected Deputy Governor of Sokoto State in April 2007, and after a legal challenge was reelected in May 2008.
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Muktar Shagari was born in the town of Shagari, Sokoto State in 1956.
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Muktar Shagari attended Kanta College, Argungu until 1974, and the College of Arts and Science, now the University of Maiduguri.
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Muktar Shagari attended Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and earned an LLB degree, and the Nigeria Law School, when he was called to the bar.
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Muktar Shagari was then appointed as Sokoto State Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice.
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Muktar Shagari was a member of the Sokoto State branch of the National Republican Convention in the Nigerian Third Republic, disbanded in November 1993 when General Sani Abacha came to power.
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Muktar Shagari was appointed minister of Water Resources in June 2001.
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Muktar Shagari said that the decision to revoke contracts was because several of the contracts were awarded to individuals, rather than to companies.
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Reacting, Muktar Shagari told Nigerian officials to put the interests of the people before their own interests.
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Muktar Shagari said the government was now placing priority on small dams.
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Muktar Shagari noted that the Abeokuta-Ota Water schemes would soon be completed.
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Muktar Shagari said the government had completed 2,500 water projects nationwide, but about 195 other water projects were still under construction.
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Muktar Shagari retained his ministry in a major cabinet shake-up in July 2005.
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In October 2005 Muktar Shagari accepted a free-aid offer from China to help Nigeria to drill 598 boreholes in Abuja and 18 states.
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Muktar Shagari was nominated by the People's Democratic Party as its gubernatorial candidate for Sokoto State in the 2007 elections.
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Muktar Shagari polled 2,701 votes while the two other contestants polled 447 and 431 votes.
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However, after Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, who had been nominated as candidate for the All Nigeria Peoples Party, crossed over to the PDP before the election, the PDP ruled that Muktar Shagari should run for Deputy Governor in partnership with Wamakko.