 Following the 1993 election, Mahamadou Issoufou was appointed as Prime Minister at the head of a coalition government, and Gado was appointed to Issoufou's government as Minister of Mines and Energy on 23 April 1993.At the same time, he was also Deputy Secretary-General of the PNDS.He served as Minister of Mines and Energy until October 1994, when the PNDS withdrew from the ruling coalition and went into opposition.