All Progressives Congress (APC)
Senate · Sokoto East
Sokoto East Senatorial District
Senator, Sokoto East
Jobs, peace and delivery for Sokoto East
The candidate
Umaru Ajiya Isaa
Senator, Sokoto East Senatorial District
Umaru Ajiya, titled Ajiyan Sokoto by His Eminence the Sultan, was born on 12 March 1965 in Isa town, Isa Local Government Area. He is a chartered-track accountant who spent more than three decades in the oil and gas sector and rose to Chief Financial Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL). He is known in Sokoto East for scholarships, school and hospital support, mosque rehabilitation and relief after attacks. He joined APC in August 2025 and was affirmed the party’s Sokoto East senatorial candidate in May 2026. He seeks election in 2027 to take East-zone security, education and jobs into the Senate, in support of Governor Ahmad Aliyu and Renewed Hope.
Education
- • Sardauna Primary School (1972–1978)
- • Federal Government College, Wukari (1978–1983)
- • B.Sc. Accounting — Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria (1987)
- • Career finance professional, oil and gas (NNPCL)
- • Traditional title: Ajiyan Sokoto
Experience
- • Finance and accounting career spanning three decades in oil and gas
- • Chief Financial Officer, Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL)
- • Philanthropy and community projects across Isa and Sokoto East
- • Co-chair, Sokoto State Economic Advisory Council (under Governor Ahmad Aliyu)
- • Card-carrying member, All Progressives Congress (from August 2025)
- • APC consensus candidate, Sokoto East Senatorial District, 2027 (affirmed May 2026)
Achievements
- • Rose to CFO of NNPCL
- • Carries the Sultanate title Ajiyan Sokoto
- • Funded scholarships and examination fees for students from the East zone
- • Supported school renovations and health facilities, including solar at selected hospitals
- • Delivered relief to attack-affected communities, including Dinawa in Wurno
- • Toured Gada and Illela with a jobs–peace–commerce message
- • Won APC affirmation across the eight LGAs of Sokoto East
A Sokoto East where peace holds, schools teach, farms pay and young people work — from Isa and Sabon Birni to Illela, Gada and Gwadabawa.
Constituency overview
Sokoto East Senatorial District
Senate · Sokoto East
Electorate: 8 LGAs
Local governments
- Gada
- Goronyo
- Gwadabawa
- Illela
- Isa
- Rabah
- Sabon Birni
- Wurno
Wards
All electoral wards in Sokoto East Senatorial District · Gada — all wards · Goronyo — all wards · Gwadabawa — all wards · Illela — all wards · Isa — all wards · Rabah — all wards · Sabon Birni — all wards · Wurno — all wards
2027 Senate. Seat: Sokoto East Senatorial District. Party: APC. Candidate: Umaru Ajiya (Ajiyan Sokoto), former Chief Financial Officer, NNPCL. Affirmed APC consensus candidate, May 2026. District: 8 LGAs — Gada, Goronyo, Gwadabawa, Illela, Isa, Rabah, Sabon Birni, Wurno. CBM support page — not an INEC notice.
Vision & agenda
Key priorities
- • Ward-by-ward voter mobilisation and PVC drive
- • Youth employment, skills and startup support
- • Women's empowerment with reserved quotas
- • Community security and grassroots dialogue
Policy commitments
- • Legislate and oversee federal tools that create real jobs in Sokoto East
- • Support intelligence-led security work in Wurno, Isa, Sabon Birni and neighbouring LGAs
- • Help return IDP-occupied schools to teaching
- • Keep scholarships, WAEC/NECO support and skills windows open
- • Back fertiliser, livestock and market access for East zone farmers
- • Defend Illela trade and the Gada–Gwadabawa commercial belt
- • Site constituency projects in all eight LGAs, not one town only
- • Align Senate work with Governor Aliyu, Deputy Gobir and President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope
- • Stay reachable to CBM desks, ward coordinators and polling-unit officers in Sokoto East
Campaign events
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Party & official materials
All Progressives Congress (APC)
Renewed Hope • Greater Sokoto · Sabuwar Fata • Sokoto Mai Girma
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