Member representing Yabo/Shagari Federal Constituency · Sokoto State
House of Representatives · 10th National Assembly
بِسْمِ ٱللَّٰهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
Yabo/Shagari Federal Constituency · Sokoto State · House of Representatives
The Member representing Yabo/Shagari Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, serving in Nigeria’s 10th National Assembly. He won the seat in 2023, defended it through the election tribunal and the Court of Appeal, and stands now in the Chamber on a broad political ground.
Hon. Umar Yusuf Yabo is committed to giving the people he represents a strong voice, listening to their concerns, and supporting practical initiatives that contribute to the development of communities across the constituency.
His approach to public service is built around responsibility, accessibility, inclusion, and meaningful representation. Through legislative engagement and constituency-focused initiatives, he continues to work toward addressing the needs and aspirations of the people.
The office in practice
For Hon. Umar Yusuf Yabo, leadership is more than holding public office. It is about remaining connected to the people, understanding their everyday challenges, and using the responsibilities entrusted to him to support positive development.
From community development and education to healthcare, agriculture, youth empowerment, and other areas of public interest, his work is guided by a commitment to making representation meaningful to the people of Yabo and Shagari.
Politics on the ground
A seat is won at an election and then held in the villages between elections. These are the documented entries from Yabo and Shagari: the facilities inspected, the works commissioned, and the people reached.
Healthcare · February 2026
Hon. Umar Yusuf Yabo inspected the completed and renovated Donu Primary Healthcare Centre, where he engaged community leaders, health workers and residents. He described functional primary healthcare as central to reducing maternal and infant mortality in rural communities — the argument he has carried into the Chamber for a rural North West electorate.
Read more about the Donu Primary Healthcare Centre
Constituency works · December 2024
Twenty motorised boreholes, classroom blocks, feeder roads, solar street lights and renovated mosques were inspected as part of the 2024 constituency projects. The lawmaker said the works were selected against needs identified in each community — the long, unglamorous work of showing that a representative is still counting after the ribbon is cut.
Read more about constituency projects
Empowerment · December 2024
Motorcycles, sewing machines, grinding machines and pumping machines were distributed to village heads, women and youths. Daily Trust reported 800 people empowered, including 400 women provided with sewing and grinding machines. He has been explicit that he does not use party politics in supporting his people, because he represents the entire constituency.
Read more about empowerment programmes
The election · 2023
Campaign events were held across the constituency, in Yabo, Shagari and the surrounding villages, ahead of the 2023 general election. The result was contested, and the seat was affirmed by the Court of Appeal in August 2024.
Read more about the election and the seatThe politics of delivery
In the Chamber a member debates and votes. In a rural constituency like Yabo/Shagari, the argument for re-electing him is made in six plain sectors, and the record below is what the Nigerian press reported from each of them.
About the constituency
The office and its values
The vision for Yabo/Shagari is simple: close the distance between a decision taken in Abuja and a life lived in a village. A child vaccinated within reach. A pupil who finishes school. A farmer whose crop survives the dry season. A household that sees light after dark.
Six commitments follow from that vision. Each is drawn from the public record — what he has said in published reporting, and what the record shows he has done — so a voter in Yabo or Shagari can hold him to it.
“As their representative, I am always in contact with my people to know their problems. So all the projects executed were based on the needs of those communities.”
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Projects begin with what a community says it needs, not with what is available to spend.
2024 works selected community by community · Daily Trust
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He represents everyone in Yabo and Shagari, and does not ration support by party affiliation.
His own words on the mandate · Daily Trust, 22 December 2024
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Farming is the local economy, so the test is whether a farmer’s household still eats after the harvest.
Free inputs to 2,800 farmers · Daily Trust, 27 July 2025
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A working health centre and a real classroom change what a child and a family are able to do.
Donu PHC and classroom blocks across the constituency · Tribune Online, The Whistler
05
Two rural local government areas are a long way from Abuja. He goes back, and he keeps going back.
Inspections, distributions and community visits as routine
06
The seat was taken from him in July 2024 and restored on appeal. He answers for it in public.
Court of Appeal affirmed Yabo/Shagari · August 2024
The political record
May 2026
A defection from the Peoples Democratic Party, under which he was first returned, ahead of the 2027 general elections.
February 2026
Reported independently by Tribune Online and The Whistler.
August 2024
The appeal court set aside the tribunal judgment and upheld the returning member’s victory.
July 2025
Free fertiliser, rice seeds and insecticide, flagged off in Shagari Local Government Area.
February 2023
Returned in a contested election as other National Assembly polls in Sokoto State were declared inconclusive.
November 2023
At Yabo town, alongside water pumps, generators, uniforms and exercise books.
The office and the mandate
Hon. Umar Yusuf Yabo is not a loud voice in a television studio. He is a working representative — on the ground in Yabo, in Shagari, and in the villages in between.
His politics are the politics of a rural North West electorate: water, health, schooling, light, roads and a fair share for the people who sent him to Abuja.
The measure of a representative is not how often he speaks, but what stands where he said it would. Classrooms were built and were inspected. A primary healthcare centre was renovated and was inspected. Boreholes were sunk, solar street lights installed, township roads graded, equipment handed to village heads, women and farmers. Those are not announcements. They are things a man has to be present to account for, community by community.
He represents a hard constituency — two local government areas, largely rural, spread across long distances between Abuja and home. Serving it properly asks more of a member than a title. It asks for returning, and for turning up when there is nothing to announce and no camera present.
He has also refused to narrow the mandate. Returned on the platform of one party and since moved to another, he has said that he was not voted by that party’s members alone, and that he represents the entire people of Yabo/Shagari. In a constituency that size, that is the whole political argument.
