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The attention of the Kabiru Tanimu Turaki Presidential Campaign Organization has been drawn to a spurious, misguided and satanic impression being created that he has stepped down for one of the Aspirants in the PDP Presidential primary at the party’s national convention.

Let it be known LOUD and CLEAR: Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, SAN, HAS NOT STEPPED DOWN, HAS MO INTENTION TO STEP DOWN and WILL NEVER STEP DOWN FOR ANY OTHER ASPIRANT, MOT IN THE LEAST, BIRDS OF PASSAGE in the PDP.

It is sad that such a cruel impression was being created at the eleventh hour of the party’s national convention by unscrupulous personalities and their ilks who are showing a desperation never known to the party in recent times.

Turaki has so far run a decent campaign which even the party’s National Organizing Secretary, Colonel Akobundu acknowledged publicly when his Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms were returned to the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja.

It was this decency that propelled Turaki to refer to his co-Aspirant and Senate President, Bukola Saraki as his brother who shared(?) the same edifying values and passion for Nigeria’s greatness with him when Turaki went on his consultation to Kwara State.
His position was borne out of Turaki’s close relationship with Bukola’s late father, “Okoye” Dr. Abubakar Olusola Saraki.

It was this honest and innocent remark to honour a respected late leader that was now being dubiously manipulated again (this is the second or third time) by discredited people to undermine Turaki.

Turaki remains the Aspirant to beat, that probably accounted for why arrows are being fired against his aspiration. Luckily, his integrity, credibility, knowledge, intellectual, experience, competence and dynamism had never been questioned.
These are the attributes that had made Former Nigerian leaders- Dr. Olusegun Obasanjo, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida and Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to acknowledge Turaki’s capacity to hold the office which they once held, more so in this era of knowledge-driven governance.

Besides, elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark and the leaders of the Afenifere and the Middle Belt Forum never hid their admiration for Turaki when he was invited to address them.
In fact, there were open endorsements by some governors and most of the state executive committees, elders and delegates visited by Turaki’s campaign team in the course of his nationwide consultations.

Added to these was the open declaration by many state secretariats of the party visited that It WAS TIME TO REWARD TURAKI FOR HIS LOYALTY TO THE PDP. This was in reference to Turaki joining forces with few members using his resources and legal skill to rescue their party from ‘undertakers’ at a time when latter-day, desperate bchampions of the party jumped ship and even ensure that the PDP was decimated in the 2015 general elections with the ultimate aim of killing the party.

How do you expect such a high-profile, decent and visionary person quit a race in which he has the opportunity to greatly redeem the image of the party and attend to the yearnings of Nigerians given his competence?

In spite of his service and loyalty to the party, Turaki has been humble enough unlike his detractors not to campaign against those who once tried to destroy the soul of PDP.
May be there is wisdom after all in the position of some of the resilient members who later became Presidential Aspirants that those who once tried to destroy the party should not be allowed to harvest where they did not sow to the extent of trying to destroy the common ‘farm’ ( the PDP).

They have argued that rewarding disloyalty or perfidy may turn out to be the party’s ‘Archilles Heels’.
Time will certainly tell.

Source
https://kabirutanimuturaki.org/breaking-news-turaki-very-much-in-the-race-for-pdp-presidential-mandate/

Kabiru Turaki on point

By Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja on 25/09/2018

There are indications that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would bar some of its presidential aspirants, who have graft cases from participating in the primary scheduled for October 5-6.

According to Daily Sun, some top shots in the PDP are strongly canvassing that anyone with graft case or any criminal charge should not be allowed to fly the PDP presidential flag in 2019.

A former member of the PDP National Working Committee (NWC), who declined to be named because he was not authorised to speak on the matter, reiterated the party is desirous of fielding a candidate without blemish in 2019.

“There are some of these aspirants who have cases with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, and other anti-corruption agencies.

We want a presidential candidate from the PDP that will be as white as snow, so that the issue of blackmail and all of that will not arise.

“So, we should be looking at someone who has credibility, integrity and the rest of that because the APC government is out to run down anybody that has skeleton in its cupboards. We must try to avoid those pitfalls.”

Similarly, another leader of the PDP in Adamawa State, who also declined to be named, told Daily Sun that it is in the interest of the opposition party not to field any candidate with any encumbrances in 2019.
When contacted for his reaction, the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said the party will not choose its candidate on the basis of whether or not they have graft cases.

Ologbondiyan also said no member can canvass for the opposition party to drop aspirants with corruption cases, and that the party would be guided by the provisions of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), as well as its rules in screening presidential aspirants.

•Excerpted from a Daily Sun report


Source News Express

Posted 25/09/2018 12:55:

Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, SAN: My 1st 100 days as a President will be full of actions

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Why I want to be the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

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Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, SAN on Liberty TV - English

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Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, SAN Speaks on Currption

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Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, SAN promises a new dimension to dividends of democracy

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Exclusive One on One Interview with Hon. Kabiru Tanimu Turaki.

Perod show had an exclusive interview with hon. Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, a PDP Presidential aspirants on his quest to become the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the state of the nation Nigeria.
It is like you have never seen Hon Kabiru Tanimu Turaki before. Happy viewing.


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Aufbauh:
Point of order: All the 12 PDP presidential aspirants have corruption case hang on them, even the ones unmarked their dossier shall be open.

I believe the APC counter forces are waiting for any one of them to emerge from the premaries.

Kabiru Tanimu Turaki speaks on curruption

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPglc8F0l1g&feature=youtu.be

Aufbauh:
Point of order: All the 12 PDP presidential aspirants have corruption case hang on them, even the ones unmarked their dossier shall be open.

I believe the APC counter forces are waiting for any one of them to emerge from the premaries.

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Conversations with Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, PDP presidential aspirant



It was Thursday, June 14, a day to the commencement of the Sallah holiday. I sent a message to Sola Atere, spokesman of the Kabiru Tanimu Turaki Presidential Campaign Organization, introducing myself, and asking if I could have a one-on-one, roughly one-hour conversation, with his principal, for my column. In less than an hour or so, I got a reply from Sola saying it was doable, and that it was better for me to take advantage of the relatively low traffic in their office that day. In another two hours or so, the interview was fixed.

I was seated with Sola in his office discussing politics – as adult Nigerian males often do whenever they converge. We have been on it for some 40 minutes or so while waiting for the guest in Turaki’s office to come out. Suddenly the door to Sola’s sparsely furnished office opened, and Turaki walked in with that confidence of senior lawyers. He is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN). I stood up and gave him a warm and firm handshake. We exchanged a few pleasantries. He drew a seat, and for the next one hour or so, we went toe-to-toe. It was a horizontal conversation in which I mostly played the Devil’s Advocate and asked tough questions, some of them deliberately provocative – without being disrespectful.

I wanted to know why he wants to be President after a number of unsuccessful attempts at becoming Governor of Kebbi State and asked if that is not too much leapfrogging. He did not think so. He gave me a long history of his engagement in politics, starting with the time he was the Secretary of the Youth Wing of the NPN in 1981; his gubernatorial aspirations for Kebbi Sate under various platforms – the United Nigeria Congress Party in 1996 (under Abacha); the All People’s Party (APP) in 1998; the United Peoples Party in 2003 and under the People’s Democratic Party in 2007. He also told me of the various intrigues that prevented him from realising his gubernatorial ambition for Kebbi State, including the cancellation of primaries he said he clearly won. For him, the changed circumstances in the country made him to abandon his gubernatorial ambitions for Kebbi to seek for the presidency of the country. “There is extreme polarization in this country – even among religious sects – in a way that has perhaps never been witnessed before in the country’s political history [since the end of the civil war]. At the same time the electorate is increasingly looking for candidates with integrity and credibility to fix the increasing rot in the system, the increasing disillusionment, the increasing pauperization of Nigerians of all ethnicities and religions.”

I interrupted him and asked whether by talking about ‘credibility’ and ‘integrity’ he was not appropriating the platform which Buhari’s supporters use to promote and market him and whether he did not think that was being uncreative. “Not at all”, he answered. “The truth is that many people who marketed or bought into the candidacy of Buhari on the basis of his supposed integrity and credibility are having buyers’ remorse because there are so many actions of the government that contradict those two attributes”. He argued that though many of Buhari’s previous supporters who marketed or bought into his candidacy because of his assumed integrity and credibility are disappointed, voters are still looking for candidates with genuine integrity and credibility who will additionally possess some critical qualities that Buhari obviously doesn’t have. “I can match Buhari integrity for integrity and credibility for credibility. I have what Buhari has – or is assumed to have – but he does not have what I have – my relative youth and the dynamism that comes with it, my sense of fairness, my being a bridge builder, my being cosmopolitan and my being well- educated.”

He argued that it is because of the current circumstances of the country – increasing poverty, increasing despondency and increasing polarization of the society – that some people felt that he has those attributes that will meet the challenges of the current circumstances of the country and therefore persuaded him to run for President. He accepted to run on the PDP platform, he said, after consultations with his family members, friends and associates across the country.

I challenged him to give some instances of bridges he has built across the country, which he felt gives him an advantage over Buhari. He gave a few examples, including what happened when Obasanjo’s second term in office was coming to an end and various ethnic groups were laying competing claims on the presidency – the south-south which, he said, wanted it as “the hen that lays the golden eggs, the south-east which felt it was marginalized out of the highest office in the land and of course some Northern groups which wanted power to return to the North after Obasanjo’s tenure – as a matter of entitlement.” He said that as the chairman of the Northern Union at that time, he pressed on the Northern groups that were demanding for the return of power to the north as a matter of entitlement that power must be negotiated with other groups, and not demanded by fiat. He won most of them over, he said, and consequently interfaced with several of the contending groups –Afenifere, Southern Peoples Assembly, Arewa Consultative Forum, groups from the south-south and powerful politicians. He believed that his shuttle diplomacy helped to “ensure the return of power to the North with largely the buy-in of other groups from other parts of the country.”

He did not think that his candidacy will be perceived in the North as an attempt to split the Northern vote – if a southerner emerges as a major candidate in the election. He also did not think that being Hausa, his candidacy will pit the Fulanis against the Hausas – if he gets the PDP’s nomination. He equally did not think it will be an issue dealing with Buhari’s fanatical supporters, some of whom burnt the homes of Northern politicians who supported Goodluck Jonathan in 2015.

“Let me tell you, the circumstances have changed in the North. Yes, from 2003 until after the 2015 elections, no politician from the North could offer Buhari a serious challenge. But people have seen Buhari’s performance in the last three years and most people are not finding it funny – whether they are Hausa or Fulani or Igbo or Yoruba. It is not just about increasing poverty but also about increasing insecurity to which all groups are exposed. I can tell you authoritatively that many of Buhari’s former ardent supporters are no longer with him.

“Look at the Shiites for instance; do you think they will support him again? There are other sects and groups that have also become alienated from him. So the circumstances have changed. Even some of his long time, hard line supporters over the years have either become lukewarm towards him or have even secretly abandoned him – so the game has changed. The point is that various ethnic groups, including the Fulanis are suffering from one thing or the other – insecurity, increasing poverty. The election will not be about ethnicity or religion but about fixing a broken country and I feel I am in a good position to play that role.”

I reminded him that performance in office is relative and that assuming that Buhari is underperforming as he contended that it will not, on its own, automatically translate into votes for the opposition groups. He concurs. “Yes, Buhari’s failures will not make him lose the elections. You need someone who can match him or better him integrity for integrity, honesty for honesty, fairness for fairness and at the same time bring other attributes on the table which he clearly does not possess. This is what will make the contrast clear and the choices before the electorate clear. And I believe this is where my strength lies.

“I was Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs (2013–2015), Supervising Minister, Ministry of Labour and Productivity (2014–2015); Deputy Director-General (North), PDP Presidential Campaign Organization (2014/2015) and Member, Board of Trustees, PDP (2015). I have been investigated severally but nothing has been found against me. I have no EFCC or ICPC case. So I have what Buhari’s supporters believe that he has but Buhari does not have the other attributes that I have. This is the contrast”.

On his chances of securing the PDP’s nomination given that he will be up against very well resourced individuals –Governors and former Governors, including the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar – Turaki did not think that money alone will be the decisive factor in securing the party’s nomination. “Yes, money is important. But don’t forget that Obama emerged as the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party in the US despite not being rich; Shagari became the Presidential candidate of the NPN in 1979 but he wasn’t rich, Buhari has been contesting for the presidency of this country since 2003 under different platforms without being rich. So it is not only about money.”

I asked him what we should expect from him in his first week in office if he becomes the President in 2019. For him, the first challenge, he said, is to restore the confidence of the citizens in this country. “This country is broken, really broken”, he said. “We have never been as polarized as this and this polarization is worsening every day. If by God’s grace I get my party’s nomination and win the election, at the Eagle Square where I will be sworn in, I will give an executive order that all outstanding court orders that have not been observed must be obeyed. This country must be based on the rule of law.”

He also promised that on the day he will be sworn in he will announce some critical appointments that do not require Senate approval while he will send the full list of his cabinet for Senate approval within one week of being sworn in.

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Kabiru Taminu Turaki was born on April 3, 1957 at the Nassarawa area of Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State. He studied Law at the University of Jos (1982-185) and was called to the Nigerian bar in 1986. He also studied Islamic Investment Structuring at the Islamic Finance Institute of Southern Africa (2010). In 2002, he became the first lawyer from Kebbi State and the entire former North Western States to be elevated to the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN). The Dan Masanin Gwandu was a member of the National Political Reform Conference in 2004, as well as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Team Nigeria Trust Fund, a body that was set up to galvanize private sector participation in the sports development and financing in Nigeria. His publications include Intrusion of English Law on the Inheritance of Land in Nigeria (1985); Problems of Bail in Nigeria Law and Courts (1990) and The Challenges of Political Parties: INEC Regulatory Functions vs Electoral ACT, 2010 – (2011).


Source: https://www.thecable.ng/conversations-kabiru-tanimu-turaki-pdp-presidential-aspirant/amp

PRESS RELEASE ON SALLAH:
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Frontline PDP Presidential hopeful, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, SAN, has urged both the leaders and the people of Nigeria to adhere to the precepts laid down by Allah to guarantee the outpouring of His blessings and favour.

In a message to congratulate the Muslim Ummah for the Eid-el-Kabir celebration, Turaki said that “we can draw valuable inspiration from the festival which commemorates the travails and eventual triumph of Prophet Ibrahim because of his sacrifice, patience, unwavering commitment and total submission to Allah’s command.”

“It is imperative,” he added, “for us to have the fear of God in our dealings with one another as well as with our country.”

He enjoined all citizens to take full advantage of the period of spirituality, by ensuring that it serves as a rallying point for the continued unity, peace, progress and prosperity of the country.

Turaki also congratulated “our compatriots currently performing Hajj rites with other pilgrims across the world in Saudi Arabia” who, he noted, are trying to further strengthen their faith in God.

He admonished them to pray fervently for the country to overcome its current trials and tribulations.

Turaki also commiserated with those grieving at this period following the death of their loved ones through banditry, herders-farmers clashes and other violent crimes across the country and prayed for the repose of their souls.

Sola Atere
Director Media and Publicity
Kabiru Tanimu Turaki Presidential Campaign Organization
Abuja.
August 20, 2018.

Source: https://kabirutanimuturaki.org/eid-el-kabir-follow-allahs-precepts-turaki-urges-nigerians/

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From left: PDP Kogi State chairman, Engr. Sam Uhuotu, presidential aspirant, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, SAN, DG Turaki Campaign Organization, Boni Haruna and Deputy DG (North) for the campaign, Col. Habibu Shuaibu (rtd.)


The Director of Media and Publicity of the Kabiru Tanimu Turaki campaign organisation, Sola Atere has debunked a rumor on Turaki yielding his aspiration to co-aspirant.

The rumor, which is being circulated on some Whatsapp groups, has it that Turaki is one of the People’s Democratic Party PDP presidential aspirants planning to step down for former president Atiku Abubakar who is also part of the race.

Atere, however, in his brief reaction to the rumor, told NewsBreakng: “Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, SAN, is a man of integrity, credibility, honour and highly responsible and God-fearing professional”.

He added that: “Turaki is in the race for the presidency to serve the nation with all sense of responsibility and trust.

“He has the uncommon capacity to hold the office of the President with all due respect and has not yielded his aspiration to anybody”.

See the screenshot detailing the fake report

Source: http://newsbreakng.com/2018/08/10/2019-turaki-wont-step-pdp-aspirant-aide-sola-atere/

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“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.” ~Thomas Jefferson, 3rd U.S President
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“Within you lies a power which when properly grasped and directed, can lift an entire race out of the rut of mediocrity, poverty and failure and unto the shores of fortune”
~ Dennis Kimbro, U.S Black Motivational Speaker
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The two quotes encapsulate the altruistic motive behind Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, SAN’s decision to serve the nation at the highest interest level for he knows that leadership is a privilege, and with it comes responsibility.

THE MAN
Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, SAN, FCIArb, FABS, FCIDA, HCILRM MPIN, MIICA (Dan Masanin Gwandu, Zarumman Kabi) is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, a former Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs (2013–2015), former Supervising Minister, Ministry of Labour and Productivity 2014–2015 and current Chairman of PDP Former Ministers’ Forum of Nigeria.

A practicing lawyer and a politician, he is presently a member of Peoples Democratic Party’s Board of Trustees (BOT).

QUALITIES
• Integrity
• Visionary
• Well-educated and Knowledgeable
• Dynamic
• Courageous
• Cosmopolitan
• Bridge-builder/Patriot
• Compassionate

EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION
Kabiru was born on 3rd April. 1957 at the Nassarawa area of Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State to the family of Alhaji Tanimu Turaki. In order to equally acquire Western education, he was enrolled into the then Nassarawa Primary School, Birnin Kebbi(1968-1975). Kabiru Tanimu Turaki exhibited clear signs of a gifted child right from his days in Primary School. He distinctively excelled in his academic work. As a testimony of the commendable and sterling qualities of the young Kabiru, he was appointed the Deputy Head Boy and Time Keeper of the School.

Kabiru Tanimu Turaki proceeded to the famous Barewa College, Zaria(1975-1980). Even though the School was full of brilliant students, he proved an exceptional person because he stood out in whatever he did. At Barewa College, Zaria, he was the Deputy House Captain, Suleiman Barau House and President, Young Farmers Club of the School.
In furtherance of his education, Kabiru went to the then State College of Arts and Science, Sokoto for his I.J.M.B(1980-1982). It was another success story for Kabiru Tanimu Turaki as he passed all his papers brilliantly. This earned him admission into one of Nigeria’s most respected Universities, the University of Jos, to read Law(1982-1985). He graduated with LL.B (Honours) and proceeded to the Nigerian Law School, Lagos where he was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1986. He thereafter served his fatherland as a member of the National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) in 1986/1987. He later attended The Islamic Finance Institute of Southern Africa in 2010 where he studied Islamic Investment Structuring, SUKUK Masterclass.

PERSONAL LIFE
Kabiru is happily married with children. He is a Muslim, Hausa-Fulani from Kebbi State.
Kabiru Tanimu Turaki is the first Lawyer from Kebbi State and the entire former North Western States of this Country to be elevated to the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria in 2002. Dan Masanin Gwandu, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, is a success story, an inspiration to the youth, a true Nigerian Patriot and an uncompromising believer in the continuous corporate existence of Nigeria as an indivisible nation.

In Kebbi State, he has contributed immeasurably to the betterment of lives of others through the provision of scholarships, employment opportunities and other forms of moral and financial support and encouragement.

He was appointed the Dan Masanin Gwandu by the Emir of Gwandu in February, 2002, in recognition of his achievements and support for the development of his community. He was also conferred with the Traditional title of Zarumman Kabi by Argungu Emirate in 2012.

The Distinguished Senior Advocate of Nigeria has been a member of the National Executive Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association, Chairman Nigerian Bar Association Committee on the Judiciary, as well as a member of the Governing Board of the National Judicial Institute. He was also appointed as the Chairman of the Nigerian Copyright Commission by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR in 2012, a position he held until his appointment in 2013 as a Minister in the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. As a Minister, he was saddled with the responsibility of piloting the affairs of the then newly recreated Federal Ministry of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs. He was also appointed by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR, to serve as the Honourable Supervising Minister of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity between 2014 and 2015. As a result of his dedication and team work, he was made the Chairman, White Paper Committee on the Report of the Presidential Committee of Experts on Inter-Professional Relationships in the Public Health Sector. President Goodluck Jonathan, GCFR also recognized Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, SAN’s effort and identified him worthy of bringing an end to the deadly security challenge in the North-East by appointing him as Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Security Challenges in the region.

In recognition of his contribution to the development of Nigeria and humanity, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki has been honoured throughout Nigeria and outside the country.

HONORS/AWARDS
Kabiru Tanimu Turaki is a recipient of numerous awards in politics, business and community service.
He has been honored throughout Nigeria and outside the country in recognition of his contribution to the development of the country and humanity at large.
Such honor and award includes

 Recipient of Special letter of commendation for national service by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR
 Recipient of 2009 KWAME NKRUMAH Distinguished Leadership Award
 Recipient of Fellow of the Civilian Institute of Democratic Administration Award
 Recipient of Nigeria Union of Local Government (NULGE) Award
 Recipient of African Role Model Leadership Gold Award for Excellence
 Recipient of African Credibility Award
 Recipient of African Meritorious Service Award for good Leadership
 Recipient of Nigeria Youth Ambassador Award
 Recipient of National Association of Mathematical Science Students of Nigeria Award of Excellence
 Recipient of Distinguished Alumnus of the year Award by SUG, University of Jos
 Recipient of Distinguished Award by the Body of Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Abuja Branch
 Recipient of Barewa Old Boys Association (BOBA) Merit Award
 Patron, Association Deaf and Dumb, Kano State Branch
 Life Patron, National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS)

PROFESSIONAL CAREER
On graduation from the Nigerian Law School, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki opted to be a private legal practitioner. He became a counsel with Alhaji Tijjani Abdullahi and Company (Solicitors and Advocates) in 1987. Kabiru Tanimu Turaki needed only two years to establish himself as a force to be reckoned with in the legal forestry of Kano and its environs. This solid resolution gave birth to K. T. Turaki and Co. in 1989.

As a lawyer, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki has practiced in virtually every court and tribunal in the country from the Magistrate Court, High Court, the Court of Appeal, Armed Robbery Tribunal, Miscellaneous Offences Tribunal, Election Petition Tribunals, Failed Banks Tribunal and even to the apex court, the Supreme Court of Nigeria. In all these, he had recorded successes that are certainly beyond the ordinary. He has held professional responsibilities that are too numerous to be mentioned. However, it is worthy to note that Kabiru Tanimu Turaki is a retained external solicitor and legal adviser to many organizations throughout Nigeria.

As a compassionate person, he has held briefs for clients free of charge. This is a testimony of his love for the down trodden and less privileged. It is a fact also, that the second Senior Advocate of Nigeria from Kebbi State and the first Senior Advocate of Nigeria from Sokoto State have all passed through his tutelage. Indeed, his law firm has produced no fewer than five (5) Senior Advocates of Nigeria to date, some of whom had become Attorneys General in many States and of the Federation.

Kabiru Tanimu Turaki was appointed a member of the Kano State Law Reporting Committee in 1999 and a member of the Committee for the review of current legislations in Kano State. The following year, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki served in the committee that reviewed the Northern States Penal Code Law in 1992.

When the Nigeria Bar Association was going through one of its trying moments, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki was one of those called upon to resolve its crisis in 1993.

The Dan Masanin Gwandu was a member of the National Political Reform Conference in 2004, as well as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Team Nigeria Trust Fund, a body that was set up to galvanize private sector participation in the sports development and financing in Nigeria.
When the defunct Bank of the North was in murky waters, Barrister Turaki, SAN, was among the intervention Board that was set up by the Regulatory Agencies (CBN/NDIC) to restore the Bank that was on the verge of collapse to profitability.

He was at various times a member of the Council of Legal Education, as well as member of the committee for the review of Investment Laws in Nigeria. He was also a member of the Ministerial Committee for the Implementation of Reforms in the Nigeria Police Force as well as the Committee set up by the Body of Benchers to review the laws regulating legal practice in Nigeria.

His contribution to the development of the law and the legal practice in Nigeria led to his appointment as a Notary Public by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, and his elevation to the prestigious rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) in 2002.

The Senior Advocate of Nigeria and Dan Masanin is a member of many professional bodies, such as:
1. Nigerian Bar Association
2. African Bar Association
3. International Bar Association
4. Commonwealth Lawyer Association
5. Lawyers in Defense of Human Rights
6. Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
7. Member, Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR)

In addition, he has attained the following Professional / Academic status of excellence:
1. Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK)(FCIArb)
2. Fellow of the African Business School (FABS)
3. Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Loan and Risk Management of Nigeria (HCILRM)
4. Fellow, The Civilian Institute of Democratic Administration (FCIDA)
5. Member, Professional Institute of Nigeria (MPIN)
6. Member, Institute of Industrialists and Corporate Administrators (MIICA), among others

POLITICAL EXPERIENCE
Kabiru Tanimu Turaki has paid his dues having entered politics since 1981 as a young man.
His consistency and loyalty have earned him the following positions of trust in his party, the PDP:
• Gubernatorial Aspirant PDP, Kebbi State – 2007
• Deputy Director-General (North), PDP Presidential Campaign
Organization – 2014/2015
• Member, Board of Trustees, PDP – 2015

PUBLICATIONS
a) Intrusion of English Law on the Inheritance of Land in Nigeria – (1985)
b) Problems of Bail in Nigeria Law and Courts – (1990)
c) Problems Militating Against The Participation of Youths in the Politics of the Third Republic – (1996)
d) Contribution of Nigerian Youths To Nation Building – (1997)
e) The Challenges of Political Parties: INEC Regulatory
Functions vs Electoral ACT, 2010 – (2011)
f) Legal Profession: Practice and Challenges – (2012)

HOBBIES
Kabiru Tanimu Turaki loves reading, travelling and sports.

See more here https://kabirutanimuturaki.org/ktturaki-profile/

Fellow Nigerians, your vote is your power. With it you can determine your future. I urge you to take full advantage of the extension of the registration excercise by INEC to get your instrument of your power, that is, the Permanent Voters Card.
With your pvc you can banish hunger, poverty, insecurity, unemployment and hopelessness by voting the leaders you can trust.

-Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, SAN - (PDP Presidential Aspirant for 2019)

The IBB, Jonathan Connection
Barely six months to the presidential primaries of political parties in the country and barring last-minute change of plan, major opposition party – Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) – will field a former minister of special duties, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki (SAN), as its presidential candidate in the 2019 presidential election.

DailyWitness reports that the presidential election is slated for Saturday, February 16, 2019 according to the timeline released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari is seeking re-election based on his acclaimed integrity and what the government has listed as his achievements in office since 2015.

Turaki’s choice is apparently a result of a painstaking search against the backdrop of the current integrity crisis facing major gladiators in the PDP.

DailyWitness‘ findings have revealed that party leaders and critical stakeholders are already buying into what now being referred to as “Turaki option” in the PDP circle.

Highly-placed sources, who are privy to the development, also confided in DailyWitness that former President Goodluck Jonathan had finally taken a stand on his choice of Turaki from among a handful of PDP stalwarts jostling for the party’s ticket for the 2019 presidential poll, following which the presidential hopeful has already put in place a campaign machinery for the actualization of his victory.

“I can authoritavely confirm that a campaign structure for ex-President Jonathan’s former Minister of Special Duties, Alhaji Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, SAN has already been set up with an operational office located at No. 40 Jimmy Carter Street in the highbrow Asokoro District of Abuja,” one of the sources confirmed.

DailyWitness further learnt that a former governor of Adamawa State, Mr. Boni Haruna, is the Director-General of the Kabiru Turaki Presidential Campaign Organization.

It is also being speculated that the aspiration of Turaki enjoys the blessing of former Nigeria’s Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd), who is believed to be represented on the campaign team by his Chief of Staff and former Military Administrator of Niger State, Col. Habibu Shuaibu (rtd).

Shuaibu is the Deputy Director-General (North) of the Campaign Organisation while a former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Dr. Steven Oruh, a Goodluck Jonathan ally is the Deputy-Director General (South), and a former Executive Director (News) at the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Mr. Shola Atere, is designated as the campaign’s spokesman.

The choice of leaders of the campaign organization, as DailyWitness gathered was informed by the need to have characters with unblemished record of public service to run the campaign since integrity and clean record of service would play major roles in who wins the nation’s most coveted political office.

Before now, prominent names of aspirants include a former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar; a former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido; outgoing governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose; immediate past chairman of the PDP National Caretaker Committee and former governor of Kaduna State, Ahmed Makarfi; and a former governor of Kano State, Ibrahim Shekarau, among others.

Meanwhile, Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) Analysis carried out by the Kabiru Tanimu Turaki Campaign Organization seen by our reporter is reproduced below for our readers:

[url]STRENGTH:[/url]
Kabiru Tanimu Turaki has integrity, good track record as his assets. He is not linked with any corruption case. He is well educated (He is a lawyer and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria).

[url]WEAKNESS:[/url]
He is not as popular as Buhari or former Vice President Atiku Abubakar but the feedback he has received from consultations with a wide range of stakeholders are positive.

OPPORTUNITY:
President Muhammadu Buhari’s dismal performance and the fact that all other aspirants from the PDP have one corruption case or the other to answer present an opportunity for Kabiru Tanimu Turaki to position himself as the new face of hope for Nigeria.

THREAT:
The EFCC may be used against him by the time Presidency realizes that he is the man to beat.

Source:
https://dailywitness.ng/2018/06/12/kabiru-turaki-is-pdp-joker-to-slug-it-out-with-buhari

I CAN RUN NIGERIA BETTER THAN PRES. BUHARI – PDP PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANT
Olusola Fabiyi, The Punch – Abuja

A former Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Relations, Alhaji Tanimu Turaki, (SAN), has said that he is better educated than President Muhammadu Buhari and therefore in a better position to lead the country in 2019.

Turaki, who is a presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, spoke in Abuja on Monday when he visited the national headquarters of the party.

He was at the headquarters of the party to intimate to members of its National Working Committee his aspiration.

He said he could match President Buhari’s much-talked-about integrity, adding that he had what the President didn’t have.

The former minister said, “I can match President Buhari’s integrity for integrity and I have what he does not have: I have education, I have the knowledge, I have the fear of God, which he doesn’t have.

“Even if you have a good sales team, you need a good product. And I am that product. I can assure you that I am not made in ‘Taiwan’.

“Nigerians are crying, weeping and dying and they believe that the only party that can save them from this malady and psychological trauma is the PDP.”

While reminding members of the NWC of the great task ahead, Turaki said the PDP needed a good product to confront the ruling party in the Presidential election.

According to him, “Since 2015 that we lost the election, many things have changed. It is no longer about the platform alone but also about the candidate.

“We must be able to come up with a candidate that has the strength of character to wrestle Buhari and pin him to the ground (should he emerge APC Presidential candidate).”

On the security situation in the country, Turaki blamed Buhari’s government for declaring victory over the insurgents; a development he said made the people take government’s position hook, line and sinker.

He said, “APC has lied over the flushing and defeat of insurgents and when they (people) relax, they are picked up in soft targets and killed by insurgents,” adding that until killers were made to face the wrath of the law, the reign of terror would not abate.

Source:

http://punchng.com/2019-im-better-educated-than-buhari-says-turaki/amp/

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