Hadiza Sabuwa Balarabe (born 26 August 1966) into Alhaji Abubakar Mohammed family is a

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politician and medical doctor who has served as the deputy governor of Kaduna State since 2019. She is the first female deputy governor of the state and was elected during the 2019 Nigerian gubernatorial elections held in March, under the platform of the ruling

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and re-elected in 2023. On 15 October 2019, as acting governor, she presented the Kaduna State Government's 2020 Budget of Renewal to the Kaduna State House of Assembly, thereby becoming the first woman to do so in

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. In 2022, she nursed the ambition of contesting for the position of governor during the 2023 general election but withdrew and was picked as a running mate to the APC consensus candidate, Senator

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. In March 2023, she was re-elected deputy governor.

Biography

Balarabe was born into the family of Alhaji Abubakar Balarabe in

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local government area of

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. She attended Girls College Soba for her secondary education and obtain her

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(GCE) in 1982, She then got admission into the prestigious

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to study medicine and graduated with

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in 1986.

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Living people University of Maiduguri alumni Nigerian women medical doctors 21st-century Nigerian medical doctors Nigerian women in politics 1966 births People from Southern Kaduna Women from Southern Kaduna People from Kaduna State {{Kaduna-politician-stub