Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, OFR

Category: Who is Who in Kano State

Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje is the serving Governor of Kano State, elected on 13 April 2015, and sworn in on 29 May 2015, under ruling party, All Progressive Congress (APC). He is also a former two-time Deputy Governor of Kano State, serving from 1999 to 2003 and 2011 to 2015.

Ganduje is a Fulani descent, born in Ganduje village of Dawakin Tofa Local Government Area of Kano State on December 25, 1949. He is married and has seven children.

He started his early education in Qur'anic and Islamiyya school at his village Ganduje where he became trained in Islamic knowledge. He later moved to headquarters of his local government where he attended Dawakin Tofa Primary School from 1956 to 1963. Ganduje attended the Government Secondary School Birnin Kudu from 1964 to 1968.


He obtained a Nigerian Certificate of Education (NCE) from Advance Teachers' College Kano between 1969 and 1972. He then attended Ahmadu Bello University, located in Zaria, Kaduna State, for a Bachelor of Science Education degree from 1972 to 1975.


He obtained his first master's degree in applied educational psychology from Bayero University Kano, located in Kano, Kano State, in 1979 and later returned to Ahmadu Bello University from 1984 to 1985 for a Master of Public Administration degree. Not satisfied, Ganduje went to the University of Ibadan, located in Ibadan, Oyo State, for a Doctor of Public Administration degree between 1989 and 1993.

He joined defunct National Party of Nigeria (NPN) during the Second Nigerian Republic and served as Kano State Assistant Secretary from 1979 to 1980.

He later joined the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and aspired to be the party's gubernatorial candidate but later became the deputy to Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso between 1999 and 2003. In addition to the deputy governorship, he was also appointed as the Hon. Commissioner for Local Government. From 2003 to 2007 he served as the special Adviser (Political) to the Hon. Minister of Defense, Federal Republic of Nigeria. 

Ganduje also served as member of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA).

Gaduje was appointed chairman of the Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti in 2008 and was later appointed as the executive secretary of the Lake Chad Basin Commission at Ndjamena, Republic of Chad. He participated in the 2006 Nigerian Political Reforms Conference

Ganduje was a Deputy Governor of Kano State Governor Kwankwaso between 1999 and 2003, under the flag of the PDP. They lost re-election to Malam Ibrahim Shekarau. They were re-elected on 27 April 2011 and sworn in on 29 May 2011 for a second term in office.

He was selected as the consensus candidate to succeed Kwankwaso as Governor of Kano State on 28 November 2014. He went on to defeat the opposition candidate, Malam Salihu Takai, with 1,546,434 votes against Takai's 509,726 votes in the 11 April 2015 gubernatorial elections. He was sworn in to office on 29 May 2015.

Dr. Ganduje's likes playing football, reading, writing and philanthropy 

Other Assignments & Political Participation:

He was Secretary, National Party of Nigeria (NPN), D/Tofa Local Government Branch, from 1978 to 1979; 

Assistant Secretary (Political), National Party of Nigeria (NPN) KanoState Branch, 1979 to 1980; Chairman, FCT Public Enlightenment Committee on the Registration of Voters, 1982;

Secretary, Federal Capital Development Authority Verification Committee on the payment of compensation to those inhabitants who moved out of FCT involving States of Niger, Plateau (now Nasarawa State) and Kwara (now Kogi State), 1986;

Chairman, FCT Public Enlightenment Committee on Registration into the two political parties (NRC and SDP);

Chairman, Committee on Venue and Accommodation, Organization of African Unity (OAU) Summit Abuja, 1991; 

Secretary, Presidential Committee on the future Administration of the FederalCapitalTerritory, Abuja. The Committee was chaired by Justice Mamman Nasir, GaladimaKatsina, 1992; 

Chairman, FCT Public Enlightenment Committee on Presidential Election Option A4, 1993;

Chairman, Committee on the Rehabilitation of Destitutes in the FCT;

Member, Kano State Executive Council, 1994 – 1998;

Gubernatorial Aspirant, PDP, Kano State 1999;

Deputy Governor and Member, Kano State Executive Council 1999 -2003;

Member, Kano State PDP Executive Committee, 1999 – 2013;

Member, National Political Reform Conference Abuja, 2005

Member, National Merit Award 2005 – 2006;

Member, National Implementation Committee on School Feeding, 2005 – 2006;

Member, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, 2005 – 2006;

Chairman, Governing Council, Federal Polytechnic Ado-Ekiti, 2009;

President, Taabital Pulaku International (Nigeria Chapter), 2011 – Date;

Vice President, Taabital Pulaku International (International) 2011- Date;

Member, Kano State APC Executive Committee, 2013 – Date. 

Publications

The prevalence of Eidetic Imagery among the Children of Northern Nigeria. June, 1979;

Job Satisfaction in Civil Service Organization; A Case Study of the Ministry of Federal capital Territory. May, 1985;

The Administration of the federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Ph.D. Thesis;

Democracy and Local Government Administration in Nigeria (Published by Spectrum Books Limited) Ibadan, 2006; Republished 2014. 

Papers Presented at the National Political Reform Conference (2005).

Power Sharing;

Local Government Autonomy and Grass Roots Development in a Federal System of Government;

Corruption and its Negative effects on public Administration in Nigeria;

The Need for Political party reform in Nigeria;

The Physically Challenged;

HIV/AIDS in Nigeria: The Need to Curtail its Spread;

Food Security and Survival of Democracy in Nigeria.

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