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title="Major-general (Nigeria)">Major general</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Abdullahi Sarki Mukhtar</b> (born 5 July 1949, in <a href="/wiki/Kano_State" title="Kano State">Kano State</a>, Nigeria) was formerly the National security adviser to the president of Nigeria. Rtd Major General Mukhtar was also a former military governor of <a href="/wiki/Kaduna_state" class="mw-redirect" title="Kaduna state">Kaduna state</a> and <a href="/wiki/Katsina_State" title="Katsina State">Katsina State</a>, in the case of the latter he was the first administrator or governor. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life_and_career">Life and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abdullahi_Sarki_Mukhtar&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He had a fairly prominent army career culminating with his appointment as the general officer commanding the first division, Nigerian army in <a href="/wiki/Kaduna_state" class="mw-redirect" title="Kaduna state">Kaduna state</a>, before that, he was the Chief of Staff of a peace keeping force in <a href="/wiki/Liberia" title="Liberia">Liberia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The retired general was one of the few serving high-ranking officers in the middle of the 1990s who voiced concerns over the detention and trial of the former <a href="/wiki/President_(government_title)" title="President (government title)">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Olusegun_Obasanjo" title="Olusegun Obasanjo">Obasanjo</a> and his former deputy <a href="/wiki/Shehu_Musa_Yar%27Adua" title="Shehu Musa Yar'Adua">Shehu Musa Yar'Adua</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is known as a principled and charismatic officer who earned the respect of President Obasanjo when he refused to budge to the demands of <a href="/wiki/Sani_Abacha" title="Sani Abacha">Sani Abacha</a>, on the treatment of coups suspects in 1995.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2009)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>From 23 January 2002, to 30 May 2003, he administrated the <a href="/wiki/Embassy_of_Nigeria_in_Moscow" class="mw-redirect" title="Embassy of Nigeria in Moscow">Embassy of Nigeria in Moscow</a> and was also accredited to <a href="/wiki/Minsk" title="Minsk">Minsk</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2017, around 5pm on Wednesday, his residence at Ahmadu Bello Way, Kano was raided by the <a href="/wiki/Economic_and_Financial_Crimes_Commission" title="Economic and Financial Crimes Commission">Economic and Financial Crimes Commission</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abdullahi_Sarki_Mukhtar&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFShiner1994" class="citation news cs1">Shiner, Cindy (1994-09-16). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210107100740/https://tech.mit.edu/V114/N41/liberia.41w.html">"Coup Attempted by Liberian Rebels Thwarted by African Peacekeepers - The Tech"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i>. 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style="border-spacing: 0px; text-align:left;width:100%;"><tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td class="navbox-list" style="padding:0px;width:10em;"><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Anambra_State" title="Anambra State">Anambra</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Samson_Omeruah" title="Samson Omeruah">Samson Omeruah</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Robert_Akonobi" title="Robert Akonobi">Robert Akonobi</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Eze" title="Herbert Eze">Herbert Eze</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Abulu" title="Joseph Abulu">Joseph Abulu</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Bauchi_State" title="Bauchi State">Bauchi</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list 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style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Gongola_State" title="Gongola State">Gongola</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Yohanna_Madaki" title="Yohanna Madaki">Yohanna Madaki</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Jonah_David_Jang" title="Jonah David Jang">Jonah David Jang</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Isa_Mohammed" title="Isa Mohammed">Isa Mohammed</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Abubakar_Salihu" title="Abubakar Salihu">Abubakar Salihu</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Imo_State" title="Imo State">Imo State</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Allison_Madueke" title="Allison Madueke">Allison Madueke</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Amadi_Ikwechegh" title="Amadi Ikwechegh">Amadi Ikwechegh</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Anthony_E._Oguguo" 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Oguguo</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Kaduna_State" title="Kaduna State">Kaduna</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Dangiwa_Umar" title="Dangiwa Umar">Dangiwa Umar</a><br /><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Abdullahi Sarki Mukhtar</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Abubakar_Tanko_Ayuba" title="Abubakar Tanko Ayuba">Abubakar Tanko Ayuba</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td><td class="navbox-list" style="border-left:2px solid #fdfdfd;padding:0px;width:10em;"><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Kano_State" title="Kano State">Kano</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a 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title="Lagos State">Lagos</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Gbolahan_Mudasiru" title="Gbolahan Mudasiru">Gbolahan Mudasiru</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Mike_Akhigbe" title="Mike Akhigbe">Mike Akhigbe</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Raji_Rasaki" title="Raji Rasaki">Raji Rasaki</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Niger_State" title="Niger State">Niger</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/David_Mark" title="David Mark">David Mark</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Garba_Ali_Mohammed" title="Garba Ali Mohammed">Garba Ali Mohammed</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Lawan_Gwadabe" title="Lawan Gwadabe">Lawan Gwadabe</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Ogun_State" title="Ogun State">Ogun</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Oladayo_Popoola" title="Oladayo Popoola">Oladayo Popoola</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Raji_Rasaki" title="Raji Rasaki">Raji Rasaki</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Lawal" title="Mohammed Lawal">Mohammed Lawal</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Oladeinde_Joseph" title="Oladeinde Joseph">Oladeinde Joseph</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td><td class="navbox-list" style="border-left:2px solid #fdfdfd;padding:0px;width:10em;"><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Ondo_State" title="Ondo State">Ondo</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Mike_Akhigbe" title="Mike Akhigbe">Mike 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State</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Chris_Alli" title="Chris Alli">Chris Alli</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Onoja" title="Lawrence Onoja">Lawrence Onoja</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Aliyu_Kama" title="Aliyu Kama">Aliyu Kama</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Joshua_Madaki" title="Joshua Madaki">Joshua Madaki</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Rivers_State" title="Rivers State">Rivers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Ukpo" title="Anthony Ukpo">Anthony Ukpo</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Olawunmi_Adelaye" title="Ernest Olawunmi Adelaye">Ernest Olawunmi Adelaye</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Godwin_Abbe" title="Godwin Abbe">Godwin Abbe</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Sokoto_State" title="Sokoto State">Sokoto</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Garba_Mohammed" title="Garba Mohammed">Garba Mohammed</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Ahmed_Muhammad_Daku" title="Ahmed Muhammad Daku">Ahmed Muhammad Daku</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Bashir_Salihi_Magashi" title="Bashir Salihi Magashi">Bashir Salihi Magashi</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>See also <a href="/wiki/Military_Governors_in_Nigeria_during_the_Muhammadu_Buhari_regime" title="Military Governors in Nigeria during the Muhammadu Buhari regime">Military Governors in Nigeria during the Muhammadu Buhari regime (1984-1985)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Military_Governors_in_Nigeria_during_the_Ibrahim_Babangida_regime" title="Military Governors in Nigeria during the Ibrahim Babangida regime">Military Governors in Nigeria during the Ibrahim Babangida regime</a>, <a href="/wiki/State_Governors_in_the_Nigerian_Third_Republic" title="State Governors in the Nigerian Third Republic">State Governors in the Nigerian Third Republic (1992-1993)</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Governors_of_Katsina_state" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar 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<a href="/wiki/Kwara_State" title="Kwara State">Kwara State</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Danladi_Mohammed_Zakari" title="Danladi Mohammed Zakari">Danladi Mohammed Zakari</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Osun_State" title="Osun State">Osun</a> from <a href="/wiki/Oyo_State" title="Oyo State">Oyo State</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Leo_Segun_Ajiborisha" title="Leo Segun Ajiborisha">Leo Segun Ajiborisha</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Taraba_State" title="Taraba State">Taraba</a> from <a href="/wiki/Gongola_State" title="Gongola State">Gongola State</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Adeyemi_Afolahan" title="Adeyemi Afolahan">Adeyemi Afolahan</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Yobe_State" title="Yobe State">Yobe</a> from <a href="/wiki/Borno_State" title="Borno State">Borno State</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Sani_Daura_Ahmed" title="Sani Daura Ahmed">Sani Daura Ahmed</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>See also <a href="/wiki/State_Governors_in_Nigeria_during_the_Muhammadu_Buhari_military_regime" class="mw-redirect" title="State Governors in Nigeria during the Muhammadu Buhari military regime">State Governors in Nigeria during the Muhammadu Buhari military regime</a>, <a 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