Senator Jibrin Barau is often seen as a stabilising force in the Senate and beyond. He is blessed with the moral authority and rare ability to put an issue that naturally wouldn’t be on the national agenda there.

Although he may not be getting the desired coverage or recognition for his legislative, political, and social interventions, the deputy senate president has mastered the political art of being relevant in the centre and, therefore, indispensable at home.

Today, Senator Jibrin is indisputably the highest-ranking APC Senator in the North-west region. An understated force of nature with admirable charisma and eloquence, Barau has been in the National Assembly since the dawn of the Fourth Republic, starting as a member of the House of Representatives representing the good people of Tarauni Federal Constituency of Kano State from 1999 to 2003.

A thoroughbred and successful accountant, he chaired the Appropriations Committee and served as a member of others. After his first legislative odyssey, Jibrin returned to his private practice, but not for long, as he was tapped to serve as chairman of the Kano State Investment and Properties Ltd and, later, Commissioner of Science and Technology.

He is a foundation member of the APC on which platform he contested and won the Kano North Senatorial District seat in 2015. This is his third term as a senator, and he was the only APC senator in 2023 from Kano, as the other two seats were won by the NNPP. But for political expediency, he would naturally have been the Senate President.

Having won the Kano North senatorial seat three consecutive times, there is no contesting the fact that he has excelled as a legislator and provided crucial leadership for the success of the party in the region.

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