Abubakar Sani Bello


Abubakar Sani Bello also known as Lolo, is a Nigerian politician and the current executive Governor of Niger State, Nigeria

Background

Born on 17 December 1967. He is the eldest son of the Nigerian Billionaire and former military Governor of old Kano state Col Sani Bello . Abubakar Sani Bello attended ST. Loius primary school, Kano from 1974 - 1979 and later went to Nigerian Military School from 1980 - 1985 then was given admission into University of Maiduguri 1986 - 1991 where He obtained a B.Sc in Economics. Abubakar has worked in several parts of the country Starting from His NYSC days where He was posted to serve in Port Harcourt in the Marketing department of NICOTES Services as Supervisor.

Political career

Gubernatorial run

Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello won the Niger State, APC gubernatorial primaries for the 2015 election.
Abubakar polled 3,829 votes to defeat Senator Musa Ibrahim in the primary election. Abubakar later went ahead to win the general election with a total of 593,709 votes. Abubakar was declared winner by the INEC on 13 April, 2015.
On March 9th, 2019, Abubakar was reelected as the Governor of Niger State.