During his time at KTC, he developed an interest in politics and became an admirer of Aminu Kano and his socialist Northern Elements Progressive Union (NEPU).
However, he reportedly requested to contest in the Kankara/Kogo constituency instead, believing that internal divisions within the local branch of the Northern People's Congress (NPC) gave him a better chance to win.
[1][3] Nas was among the eight NEPU candidates who won seats in the Federal House of Assembly,[4] where he served as its youngest member.
[5] Following the January 1966 coup, which marked the end of Nigeria's First Republic, Nas returned to Funtua and took up farming.
[1] With the return of partisan politics following the Ibrahim Babangida military regime, Nas joined the National Republican Convention (NRC) and was appointed the Katsina State chairman of the party.
He was a vocal critic of the controversial 12 June 1993 presidential election, in which the Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate, M.K.O.
In an attempt to ease tensions, Babangida relinquished power and established the Interim National Government (ING) under Ernest Shonekan.
Nas became known for publicly defending the actions of the Abacha government and was described by critics as the administration's chief propagandist.
The following year, he criticised Amnesty International as 'troublemakers,' after three of its staff members were arrested while en route to a reception hosted by U.S. ambassador Walter Carrington.
He remarked that the ambassador's tenure had been "four years of waste during which nothing was accomplished between the two countries in economic, cultural, or political terms.
Like the other parties, the DPN endorsed Abacha as its candidate for the planned 1998 presidential election, a move Nas defended as reflecting "the wish of Nigerians.