Uba Sani
Uba Sani
is a Nigerian engineer and politician who has served as governor of Kaduna State since 2023. He previously served as the senator representing Kaduna Central senatorial district from 2019 to 2023.
Career
Sani went into politics after the return of Democracy in Nigeria in 1999, and supported the People's Democratic Party presidential candidate, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. After winning the presidential election, Sani was appointed special adviser on public affairs to the president. He also worked at the Federal Capital Territory Administration on some advisory roles to the then FCT Minister, Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai and the Kaduna State Ministry of Housing and Works. In 2011, Sani contested in the People's Democratic Party primaries for the Kaduna Central Senatorial seat but he lost the primaries, and in 2015, he was appointed by the Kaduna State governor Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai as the special adviser, political and intergovernmental affairs. However, in 2019, Sani showed interest and contested the second time for the Kaduna Central senatorial seat under the ruling political party, All Progressives Congress, and was elected senator during the February 2019 Nigeria general elections. In 2022, Sani picked APC nomination forms for 2023 governorship election in Kaduna State.Sani founded the Uba Sani Foundation in 2018. The foundation's mission is to promote increased access to good healthcare services, education and improved livelihood for the underprivileged in Nigeria.