Kabiru Muhammad Gwangwazo is an activist, journalist and a

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politician from

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, Nigeria.

Early life and education

Kabiru Muhammad was born on 13 April 1959 at Kachako of Takai

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the first male son, and third child, of late Hajiya Goggo Hauwa (died. 4 August 2006) and his late father Malam Muhammadu Misau (died. 10 October 2002) an Islamic Scholar had been posted as Sanitary Inspector by the Kano Native Authority after he had trained at School of Hygiene, Kano. The family left Kano city, for Kachako in the late 1950s. They returned to Kano City after Kabiru was born in 1959; and moved to Gwangwazo quarters of

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where he was raised. Gwangwazo holds a master in Journalism from

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Journalism career

Gwangwazo started his career as journalist in 1981 at Radio Kano. Between 1982, and 1985 he worked with City Television (CTV) now Abubakar Rimi Television (ARTV), and he also worked with

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, Hausa Section. Gwangwazo also worked with

News Paper Company —

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between 1985 and 1993. After he left Triumph, he established his owned news paper Company called Pyramid. By 2016, he took Pyramid news online. In 2011, Governor

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appointed him as the Managing Director/Editor of

News Paper Company.

Politics

He started his political career as a Local Government Chairman of Kano Municipal in 1996, under the Military Administration of Colonel Dominic Oneya. General

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was the

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of the

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at the time. He contested for Governorship in 2003 against Senator Muhammad Bello, Late Engineer Magaji Abdullahi, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau,

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, and on 5 March 2003, became the Acting chairman

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ANPP Caretaker Committee after the then chairman of the Party, Ibrahim Al-Amin Little, decided to contest for Governor of Kano State in 2002. In 2010 after the creation of Buhari's Party

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(CPC), he contested for the Party's gubernatorial ticket where he stepped down for General Lawal Jafar Isa before the Party Primaries. He was the Nominee of

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SDP

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where he lost to the incumbent

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. Gwangwazo became the running-mate of Salihu Sagir Takai of

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in the

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after he stepped down from contesting for the Party's Gubernatorial ticket.

References

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