Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Malam Yahaya Abdulkarim was elected governor of Sokoto State, Nigeria between January 1992 and November 1993, during General Ibrahim Babangida''s attempted transition to democracy. After the return to democracy in 1999, he became a power in the Zamfara State branch of the People''s Democratic Party (PDP), and served for a while in the cabinet of President Olusegun Obasanjo. Yahaya Abdulkarim was born on 21 August 1944 in Talata Mafara, Zamfara State. His father was a Native Authority officer. He joined the civil service of the North-Western State as a teacher, and held various positions before retiring in 1989 as Director-General in the Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning of Sokoto State.