Engr.
Yabagi Yusuf Sani was born on 1st July 1954 in Bida Local Government of Niger
State. He is the first son of Alhaji Yusuf Sani, Ciroman Samarin Nupe.
1.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND.
Engr.
Sani started his early education in 1961 at East Primary School Bida in Niger
State. After his Primary Education, he attended Secondary Technical School,
Kontagora from 1970-1974.
He went
on to attend the Institute of Technology , New York in the united States of
America from 1975-1976 , and later transferred to School of Engineering
Colombia University also in New York from 1976-1978 where he was awarded
Bachelor of Science Degree in Industrial Management Engineering in 1978 , by
the Colombia University , New York.
On his
return to Nigeria in 1979, he did his National Youth Service at Universal
Textiles Kano in 1980.
2. WORK
EXPERIENCE
Engr
Sani began his career with NNPC and was appointed the Administrative
Officer/Depot Chief of the PPMC Depot in Kano from 1980-1983. While at PPMC he
carried out a motion and time study of the operations at the depot and
consequently introduced some innovations in the loading operations at the
depot.
Engr
Sani is undoubtedly a man of novel ideas and creative systems that focus on
solving human socio-economic problems. The few examples below attest to that:
1. IDEA
OF BUYING FUEL WITH COUPONS.
In
order to solve what he saw as one of the major constraints in the acquisition
and proper accounting of fuel by fleet operators and private motorists in
Nigeria,
Engr
Sani carried out a feasibility study into the idea of using vouchers instead of
cash to purchase fuel at petrol stations nationwide .
He
consequently resigned his appointment with NNPC in 1983 and established for the
very first time in this country a company known as Fuel Vouchers Nig. Ltd. The
outfit was marketing petroleum products to motorists nationwide through the use
of vouchers. The novel idea was very successful until 1991 when fuel supply by
NNPC to the petroleum stations in the country became erratic and unmanageable.
2.
REMOVAL OF SUBSIDY ON PETROLEUM THROUGH TWO-TIER SYSTEM.
The
ingenuity of Engr Sani came to fore in 1986 when the then Federal Government of
Nigeria was frantically looking for a way out of the imbroglio of removing
subsidy on petroleum products without causing social uprising by the labour and
the masses of Nigeria in the already very tense political situation in the
country.
Engr.
Sani proposed to the Federal Government the idea of two- tier system of selling
petrol to motorists in Nigeria such that the productive sector (commercial
vehicles) would pay an economic price.
The
idea was accepted by the Federal Government and introduced with the 1986
budget. Through this idea subsidy was removed without any protest from the
labour and Nigerians who were growing very hostile to the government at the
time.
3.
POLITICAL EXPEDITION,
POLITICAL
PARTIES, POSITIONS/OFFICES HELD.
1. Engr
Y.Y Sani is a founding member of ANPP.
2.
Engr. Y.Y Sani was a member of the Board of Trustees of All Nigeria Peoples
Party – ANPP.
3. Engr
Y.Y Sani was the 1999 Gubernatorial Candidate of All Peoples Party – APP in
Niger State who clearly won the Elections at the polls but was denied victory
through rigging/court actions and manipulations.
4. Engr
Y.Y Sani was the former National financial Secretary of the Liberal Convention
, which later merged with other associations to become National Republican
Convention (NRC) party in 1991.
5. Engr
Sani was one of the gubernatorial aspirants in Niger State on the platform of
the defunct National Republican Convention NRC in 1991.
6.
Largely due to his doggedness and popularity in the North Central Zone he was
appointed the North Central Zone presidential candidates’ coordinator for the
National Republican Convention NRC presidential candidate of Alhaji Bashir Tofa
in the 1993 presidential elections.
7.
Engr
Sani was one of the nominees from the North Central Zone that contested the
position of the National Secretary of NRC at the National Convention of the
party in Port-Harcourt 1983.
Engr.
Sani is married to Hajiya Fatima and blessed with many children.
He is
widely traveled and enjoys Reading , Traveling , Swimming, Jogging and playing
Golf.
Y Y Sani as well known, is the new Jakardan Nupe (Ambassador of
Nupe land).
Source:Takemygist
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