Alkali Abdulkadir Jajere (born 15 October 1964) is a Nigerian journalist turned politician who was elected to the Senate for the Yobe South constituency of Yobe State, Nigeria in the April 2011 national elections.
[1] While he was commissioner of Agriculture, farms were established across the state, boosting food production and creating jobs.
[2] In June 2008 he was engaged in a dispute with the federal government over delivery and payment for grains allocated to the state.
He promised to gain funding from Abuja for projects in the state, to provide jobs and the resolve land tenure issues.
The runner-up, the incumbent Senator Adamu Garba Talba of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), won 79,891 votes.