Yusuf served as the inspector general of police from 1976 to 1979 and was chairman of Nigeria LNG in 1994 when a consortium led by Halliburton was bidding for a contract to construct a LNG export facility in competition with the US corporation Bechtel.
Yusuf who was also a politician headed the Grassroots Democratic Movement during the period of transition to democracy launched by General Sani Abacha in 1997–1998 and became chairman of the Northern cultural and political association, the Arewa Consultative Forum in 2000
After the April 2003 elections, both Muhammadu Buhari of the All Nigerian People’s Party (ANPP) and Yusuf, who had run as presidential candidate of the Movement for Democracy and Justice (MDJ), challenged the election victory by President Obasanjo. However, in June 2003 Yusuf said that defeated contestants who were not ready to go to court should accept their defeat in good faith.
In November 2003, Yusuf said the grant of asylum by President Olusegun Obasanjo to the deposed Liberian president, Charles Taylor, could not be defended on the grounds of either justice or commonsense, and was therefore impeachable.
The late police boss will be buried on Thursday, April 2, in Katsina by 2pm.
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