page_title: Adamu Sidi Ali
section_title: Senate career
hierarchical_section_title: Adamu Sidi Ali / Senate career
context_page_description: Adamu Muhammad Sidi-Ali is a Nigerian politician and farmer. He has run successfully for the offices of Chairman and for the House of Representatives beginning in the early 2000s. In December 2014, he emerged again as the Senatorial Candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the 2015 elections. He is a native of Abaji Area Council in the Federal Capital Territory.
context_section_description: Sidi Ali became senator for the FCT following a re-run election in 2008.
  In May 2008, Sidi Ali was named a member of the National Assembly Joint Committee on Constitution Review (JCCR). In June 2008, he accompanied Senator John Nanzip Shagaya on a tour of the Bonny naval base, and heard an appeal for more gun boats to police the waterways and to curb piracy. In an August 2008 interview, Senator Sidi Ali expressed confidence that the Senate and executive were handling budgetary issues more effectively, and that the judiciary was performing well in dealing with decisions from election tribunals.
  }}</ref> In June 2009, Senator Sidi-Ali announced a scholarship program for indigent FCT students who were studying science at tertiary institutions.
  Senator Sidi-Ali sponsored the following bills:
  1. A bill for an act to provide for rent control in the Federal Capital Territory and Other Related Matters (2010) SB410
  2. A bill for an act to provide for the administrative and political structure of Area councils in the Federal Capital Territory and For Other Related Matters.
  3. Federal Capital Territory Re-settlement, Compensation and Rehabilitation Board (Establishment etc. Bill 2010) SB409
  4. A bill for an act to provide for the establishment of the Federal Capital Territory University of Science and Technology, Abaji, and for Related matters (2010) SB401.
caption: Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria
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