Kwankwaso Village, Madobi, Kano State
Kwankwaso
Rabi'u
He has 6 children
Presidential Candidate New Nigeria People’s Party 2023 Elections
– Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, January 1992-November 17, 1993;
• Governor of Kano state from 1999 to 2003 and 2011 to 2015
• The first Minister of Defence of the Fourth Republic with no prior military background from 2003 to 2007,
• He was later elected to the Senate in 2015, serving one term under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) representing Kano Central Senatorial District
• He was appointed as the Special Envoy to Somalia and Darfur
• Board Member of the Niger Delta Development Commission, a position he resigned from in 2010
People’s Democratic Party (PDP)
New Nigeria People’s Party
• Deputy speaker in the House of representatives
• he established the Kano University of Science and Technology in Wudil, the first and only state university in Kano
• Kwankwaso established the North West University, Kano
• He also established 26 academic and manpower development training institutes and through these institutes over 360,000 youth and women were trained and empowered.
• He is the first governor in Nigeria to introduce free school feeding and uniforms for primary school pupils
• He established 230 secondary schools of which there are 47 technical colleges, 44 schools of Islamic studies, a Chinese college, a French college, and the first boarding girls’ college as well as a boys’ college in Damagaran and Niamey
• He has awarded over 2,600 postgraduate and undergraduate foreign scholarships in 14 countries across the world. This is in addition to the local private university scholarship in Nigeria.[32][33]
• He constructed three flyover bridges, 5 km dual-carriage lighted roads were being constructed in each of the 44 Local Government Areas of Kano, and two underpass bridges were constructed
• He initiated the covering of drainages with interlocking tiles in the state, including the covering of the Jakara River which cuts across the city of Kano with a dualised road, which greatly improved the environmental and sanitary condition of the entire city of Kano.
• Built Three modern cities, Kwankwasiyya, Amana and Bandirawo
• Launch the Kwankwasiyya Development Foundation (KDF),
• On his 64th birthday in 2020, Kwankwaso inaugurated a 300-pupil capacity school which he built in Rano local government, Kano.
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