[1] Garba Yakubu Lado was elected Senator in April 2007 for Katsina South as a member of the People's Democratic Party (PDP).
[1] As chairman of the Senate Committee on Land Transport, in October 2008, Lado said the Ministry had not briefed him on a decision to temporarily suspend an 8.3 billion dollar railway modernization project, which had been awarded in 2006 to the Chinese construction firm China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) during the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo.
[4] When he was a senator, Yakubu Lado contested for the 2007 gubernatorial position in his home state Katsina under the platform of CPC and late Umaru Musa Yar'adua's brother, AbdulAziz Musa Yar'adua was his running mate and the major opponent was the incumbent governor Barrister Ibrahim Shehu Shema.
The campaign was characterized by violent clashes between the two opposing parties that led to the arrest of Yakubu Lado.
Decamping to PDP, Senator Yakubu Lado contested for the same position in 2019 against the incumbent governor Aminu Bello Masari of the APC.