 He was a founding member of the PNDS-Tarayya, a political party created under the leadership of Mahamadou Issoufou in the early 1990s, and acquired a reputation as a firm loyalist of Issoufou.At the PNDS Constitutive General Assembly, held on 23–24 December 1990, he was designated as the First Deputy Secretary-General of the PNDS.He was elected to the National Assembly of Niger in the February 1993 parliamentary election as a PNDS candidate in Dosso constituency.