Northern Senator's Forum (NSF) on Thursday, replaced suspended Senator Abdul Ningi with Senator Abdulaziz Musa Yar’Adua (APC – Katsina Central).

ASHENEWS recalls that after his three months suspension by the Senate on Tuesday, the ex-chairman of the Forum, Ningi announced his resignation from the position.

Ningi suspended for making false claims that the 2024 Appropriation Act was allegedly padded to the tune of N3.7 trillion.

But the chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation, Solomon Adeola, explained that what Ningi referred to as padding were provisions for statutory transfers to organs of government on direct line charge.

The letter announcing Yar, Adua as the new chairman was written by the NSF to Senate President Godswill Akpabio who read it on the floor during plenary.

Abdulaziz Musa Yar’Adua (born 4 August 1964) is a Nigerian politician and retired military officer who is the senator representing Katsina Central senatorial district since 2023. He is a brother of former Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and former de facto vice president General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua.

A retired Nigerian Army lieutenant colonel, he served in the army from 1981 till his voluntary retirement in 2010, few months after the death of his elder brother.

Early life and education: Yar’Adua was born on 4 August 1964 in Katsina, to the family of then minister for Lagos Affairs, Musa Yar’Adua. He had his primary education at the Musa Yar’Adua Quranic Model Primary School, Katsina from 1970 to 1976, and his secondary education in the Nigerian Military School, Zaria from 1976 to 1981. He then attended the College of Advanced Studies, Zaria from 1981 to 1984 where he received a bachelor’s degree in physics, and then the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria where he received a bachelor’s degree in science and technology in 1987. He then proceeded to the Rochester Institute of Technology, Henrietta, New York in 1991 where he bagged a master’s degree in electrical engineering in 1993.