A lawyer, banker, and technocrat, Algabid was an important figure in the regime of Seyni Kountché, serving as Prime Minister of Niger from 1983 to 1988.
[2] Following the April 1974 coup d'état led by General Seyni Kountché, Algabid remained in his post as Secretary-General of Finance until 1979.
On this occasion, he said that the RDP's "immediate objective" was "to secure the opening of an international commission of inquiry into the assassination of president Mainassara".
[1][18][19] On 11 September 2004, he was designated as the RDP candidate in the 2004 presidential election;[1] however, he was largely absent from Niger at the time due to his role as a mediator in Sudan.
[21] He was subsequently appointed as President of the High Council of Territorial Collectivities (HCCT), a body responsible for local government in Niger.
Some members of the party disapproved of the decision to support the referendum, however, and two former ministers, Abdoulrahamane Seydou and Moussa Oumarou, resigned from the RDP as a result.
[24] The RDP participated in the October 2009 parliamentary election, but the opposition, angered by Tandja's efforts to remain in power, boycotted it.
[25] Tandja was ousted in a February 2010 military coup; all state institutions were promptly dissolved, thereby removing Algabid from his post as President of the HCCT.