Karimi Sunday Steve
Karimi Sunday Steve is a Nigerian politician from Kogi. Karimi Sunday Steve has contested 1 election, winning 1.
Biography
Sunday Steve Karimi is a Nigerian politician and senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Kogi State. Karimi is the Chairman of the Committee on Senate Services.
From 2011 to 2019, Karimi was the member representing Yagba East/Yagba West/Mopamuro constituency in the House of Representatives.
In October 2023, Karimi explained in an interview with Channels TV that the Senate needed to buy imported Sports Utility Vehicles for its 109 members because 'most of our roads are terribly bad.' When challenged, he defended his position by saying, 'Somebody that is a minister has more than three Land Cruisers, Prado, and other vehicles, and you are not asking them questions; why us?'
He was born in Egbe, Yagba West Local Government, Kogi State.
He studied Production Engineering at Kwara State College of Technology, Ilorin, Kwara State, where he bagged a distinction in 1979.
He received training at Titcombe College, Egbe, which was established by the Sudan Interior Mission (SIM).
Later, he became a key player in Nigeria's water resources sector.
In a keenly contested primary election, Karimi rode on the support of incumbent Governor Yahaya Bello to clinch the ticket of the All Progressive Congress (APC). He emerged as the party’s candidate in the 2023 senatorial elections in Kogi state, defeating the sitting Senator Smart Adeyemi of the same party.
He proceeded to contest in the general elections, defeating his closest rival, Tajudeen Yusuf of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to emerge as the senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District.
Sunday Karimi cautioned Mohammed Ali Ndume on the floor of the Senate to do as he preaches when admonishing other leaders, particularly on issues related to security.
As a leader, he has sponsored several bills and moved motions both in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
One such bill seeks to bar the governor and deputy governors of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) from participating in politics, which passed the second reading at the Senate in 2023.
To address rising insecurity in Kogi West Senatorial District, Senator Sunday Karimi constructed and handed over a fully furnished and equipped military base to the Nigerian Army in the outskirts of Egbe, Yagba West Local Government Area of Kogi State.
He facilitated the construction of 75 new solar-powered boreholes and the rehabilitation of 60 moribund water schemes across communities in Kogi West. The project was valued at N1.24 billion.