Bukola Saraki
Sen.
Dr.
Abubakar Bukola Saraki
Governor of Kwara State
In office
29 May 2003 – 29 May 2011

Preceded by
Mohammed Alabi Lawal

Succeeded by
Abdulfatah Ahmed

Senator for Kwara Central
Incumbent
Assumed office
29 May 2011

Preceded by
Gbemisola Saraki

President of the Senate
Incumbent
Assumed office
9 June 2015

Deputy
Ike Ekweremadu

Preceded by
David Mark

Personal details
Born
19 December 1962 (age 52)

All Progressives Congress

Parents
Olusola Saraki
Alma mater
University of London
Occupation
Medical Doctor, Politician

Religion
Islam

Bukola Saraki (born Olubukola
Abubakar Saraki , 19 December 1962)
is a Nigerian politician who has been
President of the Senate of Nigeria
since 2015. Previously he was
Governor of Kwara State from 2003 to
2011. He was first elected to the
Senate in April 2011, representing the
Kwara Central senatorial district, and
he was re-elected in the March 2015
elections. He is currently the senate
president but elected treacherously
into the senate presidency.
He is currently a member of the All
Progressives Congress (APC);
previously he was a member of the
People's Democratic Party (PDP).

Background

Abubakar Bukola Saraki was born on
19 December 1962 to the family of
Olusola Saraki, a one time Senate
Leader (1979 – 1983) of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria. He attended
King's College, Lagos , from 1973 to
1978, and Cheltenham College,
Cheltenham , London from 1979 to
1981 for his High School Certificate.
He then studied at the London
Hospital Medical College of the
University of London from 1982 to
1987, when he obtained his M.B.B.S
(London). He worked as a Medical
Officer at Rush Green Hospital, Essex,
from 1988 to 1989. He was a
Director of Societe Generale Bank
(Nig) Ltd from 1990 to 2000. He was
appointed special assistant to the
President on Budget in 2000. [1]
Ceremonially, he also serves as a
tribal nobleman of high rank in his
capacity as the Turaki of the Ilorin
Emirate.

Early political career
Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki’s political
career began when he was appointed
Special Assistant to President
Olusegun Obasanjo on Budget in
2000. While holding this position,
he initiated the Fiscal Responsibility
Bill and served on the Economic
Policy Coordination Committee, where
he was responsible for the
formulation and implementation of
several key economic policies for
Nigeria.

Kwara State governor
In 2003, he ran for the office of the
Executive Governor of Kwara State on
the platform of the People’s
Democratic Party (PDP) and won. He
was sworn into office in May 2003.
He ran again for re-election in 2007
and won his second term. As
governor of Kwara, he led reforms in
agriculture, health, education, finance
and environment policy. One of his
major achievements was inviting
displaced white farmers from
Zimbabwe to Kwara State and offering
them an opportunity to farm. This led
to the establishment of Shonga
Farms programme, which is now
being replicated across Nigeria. His
charisma among his fellow governors
got him appointed as Chairman of
the Nigeria Governors Forum.

Power generation and electricity in
Kwara State
Under Dr Saraki’s Governorship,
Kwara became the first state to
complete the Nigeria Independent
Power Project. In collaboration with
the Power Holding Company of
Nigeria, Dr Saraki re-energised the
Ganmo Power Station at Ilorin, and
connected over 375 rural
communities to the National Grid,
through the development and
installation of 725 transformers and 7
substations. Kwara also
completed 4 electrification projects
that meant power became stabilised
for 18–22 hours a day. 90% of
people living in Kwara have access
to electricity, which compares to a
national average in Nigeria of 30%.

Primary health care in Kwara State
While in office, Dr Saraki introduced a
range of new health programmes,
including a state-wide campaign in
2008 to reduce maternal and child
mortality with regard to Malaria. This
included the distribution of
insecticide-treated nets and free
malaria drugs to pregnant mothers
and to children under the age of five.

A state-wide programme of hospital
development was also implemented,
leading to the redevelopment of
hospitals in Afon, Patigi and Lafiagi.
Other measures implemented by Dr
Saraki included improved training and
re-training for medical staff;
refurbishment of hospitals and staff
living quarters; and employment of
qualified medical doctors and other
health workers. Many of the primary
care programmes were sponsored by
international agencies such as WHO
and UNICEF.

Agriculture and farming in Kwara
State
Dr Saraki introduced a range of
reforms to agricultural policy to
increase the commercial viability of
farming, and to increase exports to
international markets. The New
Nigerian Farmers Initiative was
designed to improve the technical
capability of farmers and to ensure
farmers had a significant financial
stake in new investment in
agriculture. The scheme utilised the
under-used resource of agricultural
expertise in the Zimbabwean farming
industry, and worked with the
Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers’
Union to identify high-skilled farmers
able to support the State’s farming
industry to move to Kwara and
develop the industry. A
commercial hub was also developed
to build capacity support training of
the indigenous farming community.
Infrastructure development
Dr Saraki led a number of significant
and state-wide infrastructure
developments, including
improvements at the Ilorin
International Airport Cargo Terminal;
extensive road construction; and the
development of new sporting
facilities such as Kwara Football
Academy. The State also has an on
going aim to become a logistics and
cargo hub in Nigeria and the region.

Chairman of the Nigeria Governors
Forum
Dr Saraki became Chairman of the
Nigeria Governors Forum in 2007.
Under Saraki’s Chairmanship, a
reformed Forum was established,
with a fully resourced secretariat,
with a technical and administrative
division that was entirely focused on
delivery.

State Peer Review Mechanism
Under Dr Saraki’s Chairmanship, a
range of new processes, including
the State Peer Review Mechanism,
were also developed, to ensure that
closer working and collaboration
could take place between members
of the Forum, and best practice
shared between states. The
Mechanisms allowed a range of best
practice case studies to be shared
between states in a number of
different policy fields, including in
relation to power project; primary
healthcare centres that were being
built in villages and other rural
locations; extensive roadworks that
were taking place in rural areas;
water schemes; solar schemes and
the construction of specialist
hospitals and state universities.
Projects such as these had
previously remained undisclosed
until the Mechanism was
established.

The Doctrine of Necessity
One of the most widely recognised
achievements of the Nigeria
Governors’ Forum was its
intervention over the problematic
assumption of power by then Vice-
President Goodluck Jonathan ,
following the illness and subsequent
death of President Umaru Musa
Yar'Adua . On 23 November 2009,
President Yar’Adua left Nigeria and
travelled to Saudi Arabia, where he
was installed in the King Faisal
Specialist Hospital and Research
Centre in Jeddah for the treatment of
what was reported to be acute
pericarditis. He was not seen in
public again and his absence created
a dangerous power vacuum in
Nigeria. The problem was that, for the
Vice-President to succeed the
President, the constitution demanded
that the latter wrote a letter to the
National Assembly making clear the
appointment of the former. But as
President Yar’Adua was constantly in
and out of intensive care, this letter
was never written and the succession
therefore came into question.
The NGF, led by Dr Saraki, and
working with the National Assembly,
devised the Doctrine of Necessity,
which was then passed as a
resolution by the National Assembly.
The Doctrine of Necessity allowed
the Vice President to take over and
become the acting President until
such a time that the President
returned.

Polio immunisation and the
Immunisation Leadership Challenge

The Forum has been credited with
the development of better and more
extensive polio immunisation in
Nigeria. A key part of this was the
introduction in 2011 of the
Immunisation Leadership Challenge.
The Challenge was designed to
reward states in Nigeria that made
significant improvements in polio and
routine immunisation coverage by the
end of 2012.
Observing the effects of the election
cycle, the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation drove the Immunisation
Leadership Challenge – launched in
partnership with the NGF – which
pledged to award US $500,000 to
states that met a pre-defined
threshold of improvement. The
overall objective of the Challenge was
to fast track achievement of the
global milestone of interrupting
further transmission of the wild polio
virus in Nigeria. The grant was to be
used to support Governors' top
health priorities, including malaria,
tuberculosis, and HIV prevention and
treatment, as well as safe drinking
water and hygiene programmes.
The Gates Foundation also promised
to match contributions by states to
their chosen health project of up to
US $250,000. By the end of 2012 the
number of polio cases dropping by
about 50%.

The NGF and Global Development
Partners
Under Dr Saraki’s chairmanship a
number of Memoranda of
Understanding (MOUs) have been
signed, including but not limited to
the World Bank, DFID, Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation, GAVI, UNICEF,
UNDP.
He was the first Nigerian Governor to
be awarded the National Honor of
Commander of the Order of the Niger Ceremonial, Ceremonially, he also
serves as a tribal nobleman of high
rank in his capacity as the Turaki of
the Ilorin Emirate. [ citation needed ] .

Later political career
Member of the Senate
After his two-term tenure as governor
of Kwara State , Bukola Saraki ran for
the office of Senator of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria representing the
Kwara Central Senatorial District and
won, succeeding his sister,
Gbemisola Saraki-Forowa . He was
appointed as the Chairman, Senate
Committee on Environment and
Ecology and is also a member of the
Senate Committees on Capital
Markets and Finance. He also pushed
a motion in the Senate to end the
fuel subsidy regime in Nigeria which
has been an excessive waste of the
country’s national resources.
As a member of the Senate, Senator
Saraki has campaigned extensively
on health, food security, education
and the environment. He was
appointed as the Chairman, Senate
Committee on Environment and
Ecology and is also a member of the
Senate Committees on Capital
Markets and Finance. He also pushed
a motion in the Senate to end the
fuel subsidy regime in Nigeria, which
has been an excessive waste of the
country’s national resources. His
work on the oil industry, has also led
him to focus on arguing to strengthen
laws relating to the clean up of oil
spills. His National Oil Spill and
Detection and Response Agency
Amendment Bill seeks to ensure oil
companies pay appropriate levels of
compensation to communities
affected by oil spills.
Dr. Saraki has also intervened in the
Lead Poisoning crisis in Zamfara
State in 2010, and has supported to
the Global Alliance for Clean
Cookstoves, which ensures safe and
healthy methods of cooking for
millions of Nigerians while
conserving the environment through
reduced deforestation. He has
been a lead campaigner in the areas
of desertification and climate change
in the Senate and across Nigeria.
Dr Saraki sponsored a motion on the
floor of the Senate to end Nigeria’s
fuel subsidy regime. Other motions
and private member bills he has
sponsored include the National Oil
Spill Detection and Response Agency
Amendment Bill 2012, which was
aimed at putting a halt to oil spills in
the Niger Delta, the Gas Flaring
Prohibition Bill 2012 and the Climate
Change Commission Bill 2013.

International work and appointments
In 2012, Dr Saraki was appointed
onto the Leadership Council of the
Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves,
an initiative led by the United Nations
Foundation that supports the use of
public-private partnerships to create
a market for clean cookstoves and
fuels.
In 2013, Dr Saraki established GLOBE
Nigeria as an affiliate of the Global
Legislators Organisation, establishing
a platform for legislators to advance
environmental and sustainable
development laws in Nigeria. He
currently serves as GLOBE Nigeria’s
President.
Dr Saraki has also spoke and
campaigned internationally on issues
such as better governance,
deforestation and economic
development.
Senate Presidency
After his re-election in the 2015
general elections, Saraki was elected
as President of the Senate by a bloc
of Senators comprising PDP and a
few APC Senators on 9 June 2015.
He contested unopposed. His
deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu ,
emerged after a tightly contested
election.
Source: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukola_Saraki

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