AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq

AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq
Governor of Kwara State
Incumbent
Assumed office
29 May 2019
DeputyKayode Alabi
Preceded byAbdulfatah Ahmed
Personal details
Born (1960-02-05) 5 February 1960 (age 64)
Zaria, Northern Region, British Nigeria (now in Kaduna State, Nigeria)
Political partyAll Progressives Congress (APC)
SpouseOlufolake Davies
OccupationPolitician
WebsiteCampaign website

AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq (born 5 February 1960) is a Nigerian politician, who has served as governor of Kwara State since 2019.[1][2]

He was previously the CEO of First Fuels Limited.[3] 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.[4] 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.[5] In 2021 he introduces KwaraLEARN in basic education to empower teachers.[6] By May 2023, during the first anniversary of KwaraLEARN's launch, he declared the programme one of his best policies ever.[7] On 1 August 2023, he and other six governors were in the entourage of president Bola Ahmed Tinubu to Republic of Benin for the country's 63rd independence celebration.

  1. ^ "AbdulRazaq bags Governor of the year award". The Nation. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  2. ^ Akinyemi, Demola (1 April 2023). "Kwara: What aided AbdulRazaq's re-election; how late alliances failed". Vanguard. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  3. ^ "Hope rising for oil mandate, AbdualRahman AbdulRazak". 14 October 2018. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
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  5. ^ "APC's Abdulrahman wins Kwara Governorship election". Vanguard. 10 March 2019. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
  6. ^ "AbdulRazaq Introduces KwaraLEARN to Revolutionise Basic Education". This Day. 4 November 2021. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  7. ^ "KwaraLEARN remains my best policy ever — Gov AbdulRazaq". KwaraLEARN - An education programme by the Government of Kwara State. 5 June 2023. Retrieved 17 August 2023.