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2023 Kwara State Gubernatorial Election
The 2023 Kwara State gubernatorial election was held on 18 March 2023, to elect the incumbent Governor of Kwara State, concurrent with 2023 Kwara State House of Assembly election, elections to the Kwara State House of Assembly as well as twenty-seven other 2023 Nigerian gubernatorial elections, gubernatorial elections and 2023 Nigerian state legislative elections, elections to all other state houses of assembly. The election — which was postponed from its original 11 March date — was held three weeks after the 2023 Nigerian presidential election, presidential election and 2023 Nigerian elections#National Assembly elections, National Assembly elections. Incumbent AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq (All Progressives Congress, APC) was re-elected by a 25.6% margin over PDP nominee Shuaib Yaman Abdullahi. The primaries, scheduled for between 4 April and 9 June 2022, resulted in AbdulRazaq being renominated by the All Progressives Congress unopposed on 26 May while the Peoples Democratic Part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AbdulRahman AbdulRasaq (cropped)
AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq (born 5 February 1960) 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 the governorship 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 introduced KwaraLEARN in basic education to empower teachers. By May 2023, during the first anniversary of KwaraLEARN's launch, he declared the programme one of his best policies ever. On 1 August 2023, he and other six governors were in the entourage of president Bola Tinubu, Bola Ahmed Tinubu to Benin, Republic of Benin for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
