Aminu Bello Masari

Aminu Bello Masari Biography / Profile

Aminu Bello Masari is the current governor of Katsina State. He was born on May 29, 1950, in Kafur town, Katsina State

Aminu Bello Masari Age

Aminu Bello Masari is 73 years old.

Aminu Bello Masari Early Life

Bello Masari attended Kafur/Malumfashi Primary School and then went to Government Secondary School, Funtua where he sat for his WAEC examinations. He later went to Assistant Works Superintendent (AWS) Training School Kano, and then Middlesex Polytechnic, London where he obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Water Quality Control and Management in 1982. He also attended the Administrative Staff College, Badagry.

Aminu Bello Masari Career

Masari started out as a civil servant in the capacity of Technical Assistant (Hydrology) in Katsina Ministry of Works in 1969 and rose to the position of Assistant General Manager (Operations) Katsina Water Board in 1991.

He was Commissioner for Works, Housing and Transport, Katsina State, from 1991 to 1993, and elected member of the Constitutional Conference from 1994-1995.

On the platform of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), he became the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Nigeria from 2003 to 2007 and unsuccessfully ran for the office of Katsina State Governor in the 2011 election on the platform of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC).

Unrelenting, he vied for the Katsina State governorship again in the 2015 elections and was successful this time.

On May 29, 2015, he was sworn in as the governor of Katsina state after running for office on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC).