Gawuna Nasiru Yusuf

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Born6 August 1967 (age 58)

StateKano →

GenderMale

BirthplaceKano

OccupationPolitician

QualificationPRIMARY SCHOOL CERTIFICATE GENERAL CERTIFICATE IN EDUCATION BS.c

Gawuna Nasiru Yusuf is a Nigerian politician from Kano. They have contested 1 election (1 loss) across 1 party, receiving 891K total votes. Most recent: 2023 Gubernatorial Elections as All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate.

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2023

APCLOST

2023 Gubernatorial Elections (Kano) →890,705 votes · 45.03% of totalView candidacy →

Biography

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.

Party Positions

Policy positions from All Progressives Congress (APC)'s manifesto.

Agriculture

Will encourage local farmers to form farm cooperatives, enabling them to pool resources for modern farming equipment, fertiliser, and access priority government agricultural assistance programs (extension services), with tax breaks and credits.

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Anti-corruption

Curb reliance on imported goods via luxury taxes, higher tariffs, and processing fees while incentivizing local manufacturing with tax credits/rebates.

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Economy & Trade

Reforms the Federal Budgetary Methodology to move away from oil revenue dependence and base spending on projected growth, establishing an inflationary ceiling to optimize fiscal policy without causing excessive inflation.

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Education

Introduces a new management system for federally funded primary and secondary schools via Boards of Education, reserving community representation in decision-making.

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Energy

Will increase Nigeria’s domestic crude oil production to **2.6 million barrels per day by 2027** and **4 million barrels per day by 2030**, while implementing a Special Enforcement and Monitoring Unit to deter theft, vandalism, and pipeline breaches using drones and aerial surveillance.

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Enterprise grant support

Provides tax credits, holidays, and reduced interest rate loans for businesses that hire a specified percentage of youth in their workforce and offer on-the-job training.

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Environment & Climate

Will **reduce Nigeria’s gas flaring** by removing it from the top 10 countries with highest flares, aiming to maximize sector benefits while eliminating environmental harm.

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Governance & Reform

Commits to amending Nigeria’s governance architecture through constitutional review and collaboration with the National Assembly and State Governments to grant States greater autonomy over critical matters like crime prevention, prisons, stamp duties, and taxation.

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Healthcare

Will strengthen primary healthcare infrastructure with incentive schemes, counterpart funding programs, and grassroots preventative care (vaccinations, cancer screening, blood pressure monitoring) in collaboration with state/local governments.

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Infrastructure

Launches a National Infrastructure Campaign to modernize national infrastructure by hiring millions of unemployed Nigerians through the fiscal flexibility gained from reforming budgetary methodology.

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Reliefs and scholarships

Provides **conditional income support** to very poor households, tied to human capital development goals like high-school attendance, healthcare, and nutrition.

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Security & Defense

Enhances compensation, medical care, housing support, scholarships, stipends, and health insurance for military personnel injured in duty and their families.

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