Habibu Idris Shuaibu

{{Short description|Nigerian politician}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Habibu Idris Shuaibu

| image =

| office1 = Administrator of Plateau State

| term_start1 = 22 August 1996

| term_end1 = August 1998

| predecessor1 = Mohammed Mana

| successor1 = Musa Shehu

| office2 = Administrator of Niger State

| term_start2 = August 1998

| term_end2 = May 1999

| predecessor2 = Simeon Oduoye

| successor2 = Abdulkadir Kure

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|11|17|df=y}}

| birth_place =

| party =

| Educational background =

| rank = 20px Colonel

| branch = 27px Nigerian Army

| allegiance = {{flag |Nigeria}}

}}

Habibu Idris Shuaibu (born 21 November 1954) was the military administrator of Niger State in Nigeria from August 1998 to May 1999, when he handed over control to the democratically elected Abdulkadir Kure.{{cite web

|url=http://rulers.org/nigastat.html

|title=Nigeria: States

|publisher=Rulers.org

|access-date=2009-12-08}}

Habibu Shuaibu was an aide to General Ibrahim Babangida.{{cite web

|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6169715.stm

|date=11 December 2006|title=Blow to Babangida's Nigeria bid

|publisher=BBC News

|access-date=2009-12-08}}

In 1989, while at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas he wrote an unpublished thesis titled "Military Involvement in Politics in Nigeria: The Effect on Nigerian Army".{{cite web

|url=http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/Publishing/pubguide.pdf

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051109021704/http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/publishing/pubguide.pdf

|url-status=dead

|archive-date=November 9, 2005

|title=Publication Guide

|publisher=U.S. Army War College • Strategic Studies Institute

|access-date=2009-12-08}}

Speaking as one of those who backed General Babangida's putsch on August 27, 1985, he claimed that the reason for the coup against Muhammadu Buhari was that Buhari did not distribute positions to junior officers.{{cite book

|title=Armies and Democracy in the New Africa: Lessons from Nigeria and South Africa

|author=Steven Metz, Kent Hughes Butts

|date=1996

|publisher=DIANE Publishing

|isbn=1-4289-1366-1

|page=4}}

Appointed administrator of Plateau State in August 1996, he persistently urged the people to support and cooperate with the Sani Abacha administration to enable it to accomplish the task ahead.{{cite web

|url = http://www.thisdayonline.com/archive/2001/04/29/20010429cov02.html

|title = The Return of Abacha Boys

|author = Kola Ologbondiyan and Agaju Maduba

|publisher = ThisDay

|access-date = 2009-12-08

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070927200611/http://www.thisdayonline.com/archive/2001/04/29/20010429cov02.html

|archive-date = 2007-09-27

}}

Habibu Shuaibu retired from the army as a colonel.