Kefas Agbu
2023 Gubernatorial Elections (2023)
Kefas Agbu won the 2023 Taraba governorship election for PDP and his profile highlights military, security, and public-administration leadership before his 2026 move to APC.
Born: 1 January 1972 (age 54)
State: Taraba
Party: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
Gender: Male
Qualifications: FSLC GCE B.Sc
Running Mate: Abdullahi Aminu Alkali
Bio
Kefas Agbu is listed in the election record as born on 1 January 1972, male, and from Taraba State, and he contested the 2023 Taraba governorship election with Abdullahi Aminu Alkali as running mate. The profile text identifies him as Agbu Kefas (born 12 November 1970), a retired Nigerian Army lieutenant colonel who became governor of Taraba State in 2023.
The biography states he was born in Wukari, Taraba (then Gongola State), is the younger brother of late Air Commodore Ibrahim Kefas, and studied at the Nigerian Defence Academy (BSc in political science and defence studies, 1994), the University of Ibadan (master's in legal criminology and security psychology, 2005), and Delta State University, Abraka (master's in public administration, 2008). It also says he attended Harvard Kennedy School for executive education in national and international security.
The record further notes that he served 21 years in the Nigerian Army, chaired the governing board of NIMASA from 2013 to 2015, and was a member of the Presidential Committee on North-East Initiative from 2016 to 2019 before becoming Taraba PDP chairman in 2020. It states he won the 2022 PDP gubernatorial primary and the March 2023 governorship election, and that on 31 January 2026 he defected to the All Progressive Congress.