Abdou Labo

Abdou Labo (* 1950 in N'Guigmi ) is a Nigerien politician .

Life

Abdou Labo went to primary school in his native N'Guigmi from 1956 to 1962. He then attended the Lycée national in Niamey until 1968 and then until 1971 the School for Meteorology and Civil Aviation (EAMAC) in Niamey, from which he graduated with a diploma as a senior technician for flight navigation . Labo worked from 1971, initially as an air traffic controller , for Niamey Airport . From 1976 to 1979 he studied at the Université Nationale du Zaïre in Kinshasa , where he graduated as an aerospace engineer, and from 1982 to 1983 at the Institute for Teaching and Research in Aviation at the Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille III University in Aix-en- Provence , where he received a diplôme de troisième cycle universitaire . In 1984 Labo was appointed commander of Niamey Airport. He held this position for ten years.

In the transition phase to a multi-party system in Niger in the early 1990s, Abdou Labo was one of the founding members of the social democratic party CDS-Rahama . At the Founding Congress in January 1991, he was elected to the party's governing body as Secretary for Defense, Veterans and Security. Party leader Mahamane Ousmane won the 1993 presidential election . In his government, Abdou Labo held the post of State Secretary for Communication from April 1993 to September 1994. In October 1994 he became Minister of Defense . After the parliamentary elections in 1995 , President Ousmane was forced to appoint Hama Amadou from the opposing party MNSD-Nassara as prime minister. As a result, Abdou Labo lost his ministerial office in February 1995. The mutual blockade between the president on the one hand and the government with its parliamentary majority on the other was put to an end by a military coup in early 1996. At the second ordinary party congress of the CDS-Rahama in January 1996, Labo received a new post as secretary for elections in its governing body.

At the third ordinary party congress of the CDS-Rahama in August 1999 he was confirmed in his office as secretary for elections. He led the party's election campaign in the 1999 parliamentary and presidential elections . Mamadou Tandja from the MNSD-Nassara, who formed a coalition with the CDS-Rahama, became the new president . Abdou Labo became Minister for Infrastructure and Transport in January 2000. During government reshuffles in the years that followed, he changed departments several times. In June 2001 he became Minister for Infrastructure, Housing and Road Construction and in November 2002 Minister of State for Culture, Sport and Francophonie Games . He held this office until November 2004, when he was elected as a member of the National Assembly in the 2004 parliamentary elections in the Maradi constituency . He then returned to the government under President Tandja in December 2004 as Minister of State for Water Management, Environment and Combating Desertification . From February 2007 he was Minister of State for Water Management until he left the government in May 2007.

At the party congress of the CDS-Rahama in September 2007, Labo was elected deputy party chairman. In January 2011 he was elected to the Maradi Regional Council. Deep differences of opinion emerged between Labo and party leader Mahamane Ousmane. While the official party line given by Ousmane was to support Seini Oumarou from MNSD-Nassara in the runoff election of the 2011 presidential election , Abdou Labo and other CDS-Rahama officials announced their support for Mahamadou Issoufou from PNDS-Tarayya . Mahamadou Issoufou won the elections and in April 2011 brought Abdou Labo to his government as Minister of State for Interior, Security, Decentralization and Religious Affairs . In August 2013, Labo took over the post of State Minister for Agriculture instead.

In June 2014, a baby trafficking affair was uncovered in Niger. About thirty people came into the focus of police investigations into child misappropriation in connection with the purchase of infants from illegal “baby factories” in neighboring Nigeria . Abdou Labo was one of the most famous personalities, along with ex-Prime Minister Hama Amadou, who were accused of being involved in the affair as a buyer. In August 2014, on a court order, Labo was arrested in the civil prison in Say . He initially rejected requests for his resignation as minister. His political career seemed to remain unscathed: At the CDS-Rahama party congress in September 2014, he was elected party chairman instead of Ousmane. Labo finally left the government in August 2015. The dispute between Labo and Ousmane in the CDS-Rahama, which had meanwhile occupied the courts, ultimately led to Ousmanes being expelled from the party in November 2015. Labo ran for the CDS-Rahama in the 2016 presidential election and was fifth out of fifteen applicants with 3.04% of the vote.

Honors

Grand Officer of the Nigerien Order of Merit (2004)
Officer of the Legion of Honor (2004)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Portrait: M. Abdou Labo, candidat du CDS RAHAMA. In: Niger Diaspora. February 5, 2016, archived from the original on February 10, 2016 ; accessed on February 11, 2016 (French).
^ Elections in Niger. In: African Elections Database. October 30, 2011, accessed February 11, 2016 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. 357 .
↑ CDS Rahama. Chaude bagarre pour le contrôle du Parti. In: Liberation-Niger. June 21, 2011, accessed February 11, 2016 (French).
^ Arrestations au Niger in une affaire de trafic de bébés. In: RFI. June 26, 2014, accessed February 11, 2016 (French).
↑ Trafic de bébés: un ministre d'Etat Nigeria sous mandat de dépôt. In: RFI. August 24, 2014, accessed February 11, 2016 (French).
↑ Abdoulaye Boubacar: CDS / RAHAMA: Abdou Labo investi, et Ousmane exclu. In: Tamtam Info. November 26, 2015, accessed February 11, 2016 (French).
↑ Results globaux provisoires. Commission Électorale Nationale Indépendante, February 2016, archived from the original on February 23, 2016 ; accessed on March 13, 2016 (French).

personal data
SURNAME	Labo, Abdou
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Nigerien politician
DATE OF BIRTH	1950
PLACE OF BIRTH	N'Guigmi

[Portrait-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Portrait: M. Abdou Labo, candidat du CDS RAHAMA. In: Niger Diaspora. February 5, 2016, archived from the original on February 10, 2016 ; accessed on February 11, 2016 (French).

[Database-2] Elections in Niger. In: African Elections Database. October 30, 2011, accessed February 11, 2016 .

[Idrissa_357-3] Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. 357 .

[4] CDS Rahama. Chaude bagarre pour le contrôle du Parti. In: Liberation-Niger. June 21, 2011, accessed February 11, 2016 (French).

[5] Arrestations au Niger in une affaire de trafic de bébés. In: RFI. June 26, 2014, accessed February 11, 2016 (French).

[6] Trafic de bébés: un ministre d'Etat Nigeria sous mandat de dépôt. In: RFI. August 24, 2014, accessed February 11, 2016 (French).

[7] Abdoulaye Boubacar: CDS / RAHAMA: Abdou Labo investi, et Ousmane exclu. In: Tamtam Info. November 26, 2015, accessed February 11, 2016 (French).

[8] Results globaux provisoires. Commission Électorale Nationale Indépendante, February 2016, archived from the original on February 23, 2016 ; accessed on March 13, 2016 (French).