	Bala James Ngilari is a Nigerian lawyer and the governor of Adamawa State, Nigeria from October 2014 to May 2015. He was succeeded by Bindo Jibrilla, the winner of the 2015 Adamawa gubernatorial election. Ngilari was sentenced to five years in jail without option of fine by a Yola High court for corruption, but was soon afterward acquitted and freed by the Court of Appeals.