{"id":6477,"date":"2022-07-13T14:41:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T14:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijabiography.com\/?post_type=biography&p=6477"},"modified":"2022-07-13T14:41:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T14:41:09","slug":"rabiu-kwankwaso-biography","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/naijabiography.com\/biography\/rabiu-kwankwaso-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabiu Kwankwaso Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Rabiu Kwankwaso was born on the 21st of October, 1956, in Kwankwaso village, Madobi. His father held the position of Sarkin Fulani, Dagacin Kwankwaso<\/strong>, the title for the head of Kwankwaso village. His father was later appointed as Majidadin Kano<\/strong>, the District Head of Madobi<\/strong>. Kwankwaso had most of his education in Kano State. He attended Kwankwaso Primary School, Gwarzo Boarding Senior Primary School, Wudil Craft School<\/strong>, and Kano Technical College<\/strong> for his primary and secondary education.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kwankwaso went to further to Kaduna Polytechnic<\/strong> where he obtained his National Diploma(ND) and Higher National Diploma(HND) certificate. During his time in school, Kwankwaso was a prominent student leader and a chosen representative of the Kano State Students Association<\/strong>. He also pursued postgraduate studies at Middlesex Polytechnic<\/strong> in the UK from 1982 to 1983, as well as at the Loughborough University of Technology<\/strong>, where he graduated with a master’s in water engineering in 1985. In 2022, he graduated from Sharda University<\/strong> in India with a Ph.D. in water engineering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 1975, before Kwankwaso joined politics, he worked at the Kano State Water Resources and Engineering Construction Agency of the Government of Kano State. After his seventeen years of working experience, he became the principal water engineer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rabiu Kwankwaso started his political career in 1992 as a member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP)<\/strong>. In the same year, he was elected as an honorable representing Madobi Federal Constituency in Kano State. He gained national recognition when he became the deputy speaker of the House of Assembly. As a representative of the People’s Democratic Movement<\/strong>, led by Yar’adua<\/strong>, Kwankwaso was chosen as one of the delegates from Kano during the 1995 Constitutional Conference. Later, as part of General Sani Abacha<\/a>‘s political transition plan, he joined the Democratic Party of Nigeria (DPN)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the platform of the People’s Democratic Movement in Kano, which was headed by Mallam Musa Gwadabe, Senator Hamisu Musa<\/strong>, and Alhaji Abdullahi Aliyu Sumaila<\/strong>, Kwankwaso joined the PDP in 1998.\u00a0 He ran in the PDP primary elections in 1999 alongside Alhaji Kabiru Rabiu, Mukthari Zimit<\/strong>, and Abdullahi Umar Ganduje<\/a>. He defeated them in the primary elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kwankwaso replaced Theophilus Danjuma<\/strong> as Minister of Defense<\/strong> in President Olusegun Obasanjo<\/a>‘s second government from 2003 to 2007. He withdrew from his ministerial position in 2007 to run for Governor of Kano State, but he was defeated. Later, the party’s candidate for governor, Alhaji Ahmed Garba Bichi<\/strong>, took his place.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kwasnkwaso was appointed by President Olusegun Obasanjo<\/a> as the Special Envoy to Somalia and Darfur after his party’s failed bid to run in the 2007 gubernatorial elections. President Umaru Yar’Adua<\/strong> later made him a board member of the Niger Delta Development Commission<\/strong>, a position he held until resigning in 2010. From 2015 to 2019, Kwankwaso served as the senator for the Kano Central Senatorial District in the Nigerian Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Together with fourteen other APC senators who were still in office, Kwankwaso defected to the PDP in July 2018. The PDP presidential primaries was held in October 2018 and featured 12 candidates, including Kwankwaso, he finished fourth with 158 votes, following Atiku Abubakar<\/a> (1,532), Aminu Tambuwal<\/strong> (693), Bukola Saraki<\/a> (317), and Kwankwaso (158). Later, Kwankwaso endorsed Atiku Abubakar as the winner and decided not to run for re-election to the senate, allowing Ibrahim Shekarau<\/strong> to take his place. Abba Kabir Yusuf<\/strong>, his son-in-law, was heavily backed by Kwankwaso in his attempt to become governor of Kano State. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje<\/a>, the incumbent, won the race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2022, Rabiu Kwankwaso was declared the presidential candidate under the New Nigeria Peoples Party(NNPP)<\/strong>, which would be contesting against other parties in the 2023 presidential election.<\/p>\n\n\n\nCareer<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Political Career<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Governor of Kano State<\/h4>\n\n\n\n