Kanal Bala Mohammed Mande tsohon Shugaban Gwamnatin Soja ne a Jihar Nasarawa . Daga baya aka nada shi Ministan Muhalli a majalisar ministocin tsohon Shugaban kasa Olusegun Obasanjo . Bala Mande ya fito ne daga jihar Zamfara . An nada shi mai kula da harkokin soja na jihar Nasarawa daga watan Yunin shekara ta 1998 zuwa watan Mayu shekarar 1999 a lokacin mulkin rikon kwarya na Janar Abdulsalami Abubakar, yana mikawa zababben Gwamna Abdullahi Adamu kan komawar dimokuradiyya. Ya kasance mai kaifin sukar lamiri ga gwamna Ahmad Rufa'i Sani saboda aiwatar da Shari'ar Musulunci a tsakanin shekarun 2000-2003, wanda yake jin ana amfani da shi wajen ladabtar da abokan adawar siyasa, tare da barnatar da aka samu ga magoya bayan Sani na jam'iyyar ANPP. Ya kasance dan takarar Jam’iyyar Democratic Party na gwamnan jihar Zamfara a shekarar 2003, amma ya kayar da Ahmad Sani mai ci a jam’iyyar All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP). An nada Mande a matsayin Ministan Muhalli a majalisar Shugaba Olusegun Obasanjo a watan Yunin shekarar 2003, yana mai rike da mukamin har zuwa Yunin 2005.