His family was of a royal Sudié line, a Hausa speaking subgroup which governed the town under French colonial rule.
His grandfather was the first French appointed Chef du Canton of the area, and his father was Serkin of Filingué until 1935.
[5] Mayaki attended the French teachers college at Kati, Mali, became a civil engineer, and became active in politics in 1946 as a leader of the Nigerien Action Bloc (BNA), which later became the Union of Nigerien Independents and Sympathisers (UNIS), one of two pre-independence parties contesting the 1952 territorial elections.
[5] SAWABA militants, after their party had been decreed illegal in 1959, launched a series of sabotage attacks and border raids in 1964 and 65.
In response, the PPN moved a number of members who had at one time belonged to rival parties, Mayaki among them.