Abubakar Bukola Saraki(Listen)MBBS is a Nigerian politician. He was the 13th President of the Senate of Nigeria from 2015 to 2019 and Chair of the 8th Nigeria National Assembly. He was previously the Governor of Kwara State from 2003 to 2011;and was elected to the Senate in 2011,under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),representing the Kwara Central Senatorial District,and then re-elected in the 2015 general elections under the party of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Ọlagunsoye Oyinlọla is a retired Nigerian general,he became governor of Osun State in Nigeria in May 2003,and was reelected in 2007. He was a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). On 26 November 2010 a court of appeals nullified his election. He later defected to the APC shortly before the 2014 Osun State governorship election. He was former military administrator of Lagos State.
Chief Abdulkareem Adebisi Bamidele Akande is a Nigerian politician,who was the governor of Osun State from 1999 to 2003,as a member of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) party,and was the first interim Chairman of the All Progressives Congress.
Gbemisola Ruqayyah Saraki(Listen) is a Nigerian politician who has served as the Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development of Nigeria since 6 July 2022. She served earlier as the Minister of State for Transportation from 2019 till she was moved by the President to the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development in 2022.
Femi David Lasisi Bamigboye was a Nigerian military commander and politician of Kwara State from May 1967 to July 1975,after it had been split from the old Northern Region during the military regime of General Yakubu Gowon.
Mohammed Alabi LawalListen was a Nigerian naval officer who was military governor of Ogun State between December 1987 and August 1990 during the military administration of General Ibrahim Babangida. He was one of the pioneers of the Nigeria Navy Secondary School Abeokuta.The then Navy Captain Mohammed Lawal,invited the Nigerian Navy to consider a location of the defunct St Leo's Teachers' Training College at Ibara Abeokuta (www.nnssab.net)on a hilly Onikolobo site. This premises had been abandoned and merely serve as a route to the Catholic Compound and was also used for administering a newly conceived secondary school in that name. The Nigerian Navy considered the site and found it suitable. After the return to democracy in 1999 he was elected governor of Kwara State,holding office from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2003.
Sha'aba Lafiagi was elected governor of Kwara State in January 1992 on the Social Democratic Party (SDP) platform,and was removed from office by the administration of General Sani Abacha in November 1993.
Lt. Colonel Joseph Iorshagher Akaagerger was the Military Administrator of Katsina State,Nigeria from August 1998 to 29 May 1999. After the return to democracy,in April 2007 he was elected to the Senate representing Benue North East.
Alhaji Fatai Akinade AkinbadeListen is a Nigerian politician and the former Secretary to the State Government in Osun State. He was a contender to become the People's Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for governorship of Osun State in the April 2011 elections.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) is one of the three major contemporary political parties in Nigeria,along with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party (LP). Founded on 6 February 2013 from a merger of Nigeria's three largest opposition parties,the party came to power following the victory of party candidate Muhammadu Buhari in the 2015 presidential election. This marked the first time in Nigerian history that an opposition party unseated a governing party and power was transferred peacefully.
AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq is a Nigerian politician,who has served as governor of Kwara State since 2019. He was previously the CEO of First Fuels Limited. He contested unsuccessfully for the governor of Kwara State in 2003,2007 and 2011 respectively under the Congress for Progressive Change political party and was successively defeated by Abubakar Bukola Saraki in 2003 and 2007,and by Abdulfatah Ahmed in 2011. However in 2019,he contested again under the ruling political party in Nigeria,the All Progressive Congress,and emerged as the governor of Kwara State,after he won the 2019 governorship election in the state. In 2021 he introduces KwaraLEARN in basic education to empower teachers.
ÓTóGẹ́ is the slogan for the political revolution that took place in Nigeria's Kwara State in 2019. The slogan was first used by 79-year-old Lazeez Ayinla Kolawole,a member of the All Progressives Congress.
The 2019 Kwara State gubernatorial election occurred on March 9,2019. APC's AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq polled 73.12% of the total votes,ahead of PDP's Razak Atunwa who got 25.31% of votes trailing behind by a margin of 216,792 votes,and several minor party candidates. APC won in all 16 LGAs of the state.
The 2015 Kwara State gubernatorial election occurred in Nigeria on April 12,2015. Incumbent APC Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed won re-election for a second term,defeating PDP Simon Ajibola and 15 other party candidates.
The 2015 Bauchi State gubernatorial election was the 8th gubernatorial election of Bauchi State. Held on April 11,2015,the All Progressives Congress nominee Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar won the election,defeating Mohammed Jatau of the People's Democratic Party.
The 2023 Nigerian gubernatorial elections will be held for state governors in 31 out of 36 Nigerian states. All but three elections will be held on 11 March—concurrent with elections to every state house of assembly,two weeks after the presidential election and National Assembly elections—while the Imo State,Kogi State,and Bayelsa State elections will be held on 11 November. The last regular gubernatorial elections for all states were in 2019. All states have a two term limit for Governors which makes 18 incumbent governors ineligible for re-election.
The 2023 Bauchi State gubernatorial election will take place on 11 March 2023,to elect the Governor of Bauchi State,concurrent with elections to the Bauchi State House of Assembly as well as twenty-seven other gubernatorial elections and elections to all other state houses of assembly. It will be held two weeks after the presidential election and National Assembly elections. Incumbent PDP Governor Bala Mohammed initially declined to run for re-election,instead running for president. However,after losing the PDP presidential primary in May 2022,Mohammed was renominated in a rerun primary.
The 2023 Kwara State gubernatorial election will take place on 11 March 2023,to elect the Governor of Kwara State,concurrent with elections to the Kwara State House of Assembly as well as twenty-seven other gubernatorial elections and elections to all other state houses of assembly. The election will be held two weeks after the presidential election and National Assembly elections. Incumbent APC Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has been renominated by his party.
The 2023 Nigerian Senate elections were held on 25 February 2023 in all 109 senatorial districts where voters elected senators using first-past-the-post voting. The last regular senatorial elections for all districts were in 2019.
The 2023 Nigerian Senate elections in Kwara State will be held on 25 February 2023,to elect the 3 federal Senators from Kwara State,one from each of the state's three senatorial districts. The elections will coincide with the 2023 presidential election,as well as other elections to the Senate and elections to the House of Representatives;with state elections being held two weeks later. Primaries were held between 4 April and 9 June 2022.
Listen ) (born 1951) is a retired Nigerian Colonel who served as Military Administrator of Bauchi State and then Osun State before the return to democracy in May 1999. He later entered politics,competing for governorship of Kwara State in 2007. [1] 