Kingibe Ireti Heebah

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Born2 June 1954 (age 72)

StateAbuja →

ReligionIslam

SpouseBaba Gana Kingibe

EducationQueen's College, Lagos, University of Minnesota

BirthplaceKano State

OccupationPolitician

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Kingibe Ireti Heebah is a Nigerian politician from Abuja. They have contested 1 election (1 win) across 1 party. Most recent: 2023 Nigerian Senate Elections as Labour Party (LP) candidate.

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Political Career

2023

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Biography

Ireti Heebah Kingibe (born 2 June 1954) is a Nigerian civil engineer and politician. She was elected member of the Senate representing the FCT in the 2023 Nigerian Senate elections under the Labour Party.

Her education started at Emotan Preparatory School in 1966, after which she attended Queen's College Lagos from 1966 to 1967 and Washington Irving High School from 1970 to 1973 for her secondary school education. She bagged a degree in civil engineering from the University of Minnesota between 1975 and 1980.

Between 1978 and 1979, Kingibe worked as a quality control engineer with Bradley Precast Concrete Inc. She then moved on to work as an engineer with the Minnesota Department of Transportation Design unit from 1979 to 1991.

She returned to Nigeria for her mandatory one-year service year between 1981 and 1982, where she was posted as a project supervisor with the Nigerian Air Force base in Ikeja, Lagos.

In 1982, she worked as a planning engineer with the New Nigeria Construction Company in Kaduna. In 1985, she left New Nigeria Construction Company to work as a consultant for Belsam Limited.

Kingibe became the regional engineer for Lodigiani Nigeria Limited in Lagos between 1990 and 1994. She currently works as a senior partner with Kelnic Associates, Abuja.

Her political career began in 1990 with her appointment as adviser to the national chairman of the defunct Social Democratic Party (SDP). In 2003, she was the FCT senatorial candidate for the All Nigeria Peoples Party.

She defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2006, but in 2014 joined the All Progressive Congress (APC) due to political challenges within PDP. In 2015, she ran for the senatorial seat under APC but later withdrew.

In 2022, she joined the Labour Party, became its FCT senatorial candidate, and won the 2023 Nigerian Senate election. Before the elections, she pledged her basic salary to a special fund to address infrastructural deficits in rural communities within Abuja.

She was named the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Women Affairs in the 10th Senate on 8 August 2023. On 28 February 2023, INEC declared her the winner of the FCT senatorial election, defeating three-term Senator Philip Aduda. She contested against opposition parties’ claims of electoral rigging, alleging bribery of electoral officers and an attack on the Gwarinpa collation center.

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Governance & Reform

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Promised

The Senate formally endorsed electronic transmission of election results as part of the Electoral Reform Bill, marking a concrete step toward modernizing Nigeria’s electoral system.

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Party Positions

Policy positions from Labour Party (LP)'s manifesto.

Agriculture

Will optimize agricultural value chains across all states via targeted investments to boost food security and advance agro-based industrialization, addressing banditry, kidnapping, desertification, and policy barriers.

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Anti-corruption

Will establish an Office of Special Counsel to investigate executive abuses, corruption, and bureaucratic concealments, exempting its prosecutions from Nolle Prosequi by the Attorney General.

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Economy & Trade

Will implement radical economic reforms to drastically cut debt-servicing and debt-to-revenue ratios through aggressive fiscal policy adjustments, addressing high poverty (95M), unemployment (~32%), and low tax contribution (~6% of GDP).

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Education

Overhauls funding access for UBEC and TETFund by removing bottlenecks, increasing transparency, and implementing a public-private partnership model where private corporations fund and manage schools (tax-in-kind).

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Energy

Fast-track gas flaring commercialisation (NGFCP) to increase gas utilization and reduce wastage by enforcing Domestic Gas Supply Obligations of oil/gas companies, implementing gas-to-power infrastructure with fiscal incentives, and lowering prices for embedded power generation.

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Enterprise grant support

Will implement a mandatory national certification for blue-collar artisans and re-skilling programs to align youth skills with economic needs, including STEM training and a venture capital-like fund for entrepreneurs.

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Environment & Climate

Will establish a Green Army to tap into $3 trillion in international climate finance for green growth, employment, and transition to a green economy.

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Foreign Policy

Will actively engage in sub-regional and regional forums to enhance Nigeria’s leadership role in African affairs through constructive dialogue on challenges.

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Healthcare

Develop a comprehensive occupational mapping of Nigeria’s healthcare system to generate data on human capacity, reverse brain drain, and stop medical tourism by leveraging Diaspora healthcare expertise.

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Infrastructure

Will develop and complete a $2.3 billion Siemens deal to upgrade Nigeria’s power transmission grid, aiming for stable capacities of 7,000 MW by 2023, 11,000 MW by 2024, and 25,000 MW by 2025 through public-private partnerships.

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Reliefs and scholarships

Will criminalize non-payment of salaries/wages/pensions to address poverty, inequality, and enhance social solidarity through enforcement of collective bargaining agreements.

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Security & Defense

Committed to activating regional cooperation with neighboring countries (Niger, Chad, Cameroon) for border security and addressing cross-border crimes under the ECOWAS Protocol on Movement of Persons.

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