Alhaji Mohammed Goni was a civil servant who was Governor of Borno State, Nigeria (1979–1983) in the Nigerian Second Republic.
[2] Mohammed Goni was born in 1942 in Kareto, Mobbar Local Government Area, Borno State.
[3] In April 1979, Mohammed Goni resigned from the National Supply Company and entered politics.
[3] He was elected as the first civilian governor of the former Borno State, on the platform of the Great Nigeria Peoples Party (GNPP), and was in office from October 1979 to September 1983.
[8] In the case of Federal Electoral Commission v Alhadji Mohammed Goni (1983), the Supreme Court of Nigeria condemned cross-carpeting by political officeholders.