A former governor of Jigawa State, Sen. Ibrahim Saminu Turaki, is the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seantorial candidate for Jigawa West Senatorial District in the 2023 elections.
He won the candidature unopposed at the party primaries held in Dutse.
Turaki was governor of Jigawa State for two terms between 1999 and 2007, after which he served as senator between 2007 and 2011.
Turaki recently decamped from the APC to the PDP.