Gawuna Nasiru Yusuf

Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna (born 6 August 1967) is a Nigerian health personnel, businessman and politician. In May 2022, he became the Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the 2023 Kano State gubernatorial election. He served as deputy governor of Kano State under Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje from 2018 to 2023.

Nasiru Yusuf was born on 6 August 1967, to the family of Alhaji Yusuf and Hajiya Fatima Shiekh Hassan Gawuna, in Kano city. He is a descendant of Garba Gawuna and Sheikh Hassan Gawuna families on the paternal and maternal lineages respectively.

Nasir Yusuf Gawuna enrolled at Gawuna Primary School in the year 1973. He completed Gawuna Primary School in 1979, and the following year, he enrolled at Government Secondary School Gwaram (now in Jigawa State) where he did his junior secondary school.

After completing his high school education at Science Secondary School Dawakin Kudu in 1984, he gained admission into Ahmadu Bello University's School of Basic Studies in Zaria for a year preliminary study. He finished his preliminary in 1985.

He then proceeded to the Usman Danfodiyo University, where he graduated in 1990 with a degree in biochemistry.

Nasir Yusuf Gawuna was appointed by Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje after the resignation of the former Deputy Governor Professor Hafiz Abubakar on 5 August 2018. Governor Ganduje also retained Gawuna as his running mate in the 2019 Nigerian general election.

Before his appointment, Gawuna was the Commissioner for Kano State Ministry of Agriculture, first appointed in 2014 by former Governor Engineer Rabiu Kwankwaso.

Gawuna is the Chairman of Kano State Taskforce Committee on COVID-19. He was Chairman of Nassarawa Local Government Area for 8 years under the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) while Ibrahim Shekarau was the Governor of Kano State.

Gawuna resigned as the Commissioner of Agriculture and Natural Resources on 18 April 2022 to be eligible for the 2023 Kano State gubernatorial election. The incumbent Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje supported Gawuna, announcing his decision at a stakeholders meeting on 7 May 2022.