Abdulrazaq Abdulrahman

Abdulrazaq Abdulrahman is a Nigerian politician born on 1960-02-05, identified as male, with birthplace listed as Zaria and qualifications listed as First School Leaving Certificate and WASC. He has served as governor of Kwara State since 2019 and was previously CEO of First Fuels Limited. He unsuccessfully contested the Kwara governorship in 2003, 2007, and 2011 under the Congress for Progressive Change, losing to Bukola Saraki in 2003 and 2007 and to Abdulfatah Ahmed in 2011, before winning in 2019 on the All Progressives Congress platform; he was elected on 9 March 2019 and sworn in on 29 May 2019.

The profile adds that he introduced KwaraLEARN in 2021 as a basic education programme to empower teachers, and by May 2023, at its first anniversary, described it as one of his best policies. It also records that on 1 August 2023 he joined six other governors in President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's entourage to the Republic of Benin for the country's 63rd independence celebration. His running mate is Alabi Kayode, also listed as born on 1960-02-05 and from Zaria.

It further states that he was born in Kano State, is the son of Alhaji Abdulganiyu Abdulrasaq SAN (described as the first northern lawyer in Nigeria), and attended Capital School Kaduna (1966-1968), Bishop Smith Memorial School Ilorin (1970-1971), and Government College Kaduna, where he reportedly obtained WASSCE in 1976. The account notes he entered politics in 1999, contested unsuccessfully for governor in 2011 under CPC, and also contested unsuccessfully for Kwara Central Senatorial District under PDP in 2011 and 2015 before winning the APC gubernatorial primary in October 2018.