Abdullahi Sule (born December 26, 1959) is a Nigerian entrepreneur, businessman and politician who is the Governor of Nasarawa State. He was elected the Governor of Nasarawa State in the 2019 Governorship election under the platform of the

All Progressive Congress The All Progressives Congress (APC) is one of the two major contemporary political parties in Nigeria, along with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Founded on 6 February 2013 from a merger of Nigeria's three largest opposition parties, the ...

(APC).

Early life and education

He was born on December 26, 1959, in Gudi Station,

Akwanga Akwanga is a Local Government Area in Nasarawa State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Akwanga. It has an area of 996 km and a population of 513,930 at the 2006 census. The postal code A postal code (also known locally in var ...

-West Development Area of Nasarawa State. His early schooling was at Roman Catholic Mission (RMC) Primary School, Gudi Station in 1968. He then enrolled in Zang Secondary School in 1974 and later Government Technical College, Bukuru in 1977. After his secondary education, he went to

Plateau State Polytechnic Plateau State Polytechnic is a state owned polytechnic in Plateau State, North Central Nigeria. The institution has two campuses, one at Barkin Ladi and the other at Bukuru Bukuru is a city located on the Jos Plateau in Nigeria. It was prev ...

, in Barkin Ladi in 1980. He then left Nigeria on a scholarship to study at

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, Terre Haute, Indiana,

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where he obtained a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Technology and a master's degree in Industrial Technology.

Career

Returning to

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in 1985, Sule served as a youth corps member with Plateau Utilities Board. He later joined the Jos Steel Rolling Mill in 1985 as a Production Engineer. Returning to the United States in 1989, he worked for several companies (Lancer Corporation, OEM component and Osyka Corporation among others) before returning to

in 2000. On his return to Nigeria, he co-founded Sadiq Petroleum Nigeria Limited in Lagos and was made the managing director/CEO. Under his leadership, the company won a bid to acquire African Petroleum (AP) Plc and he became the CEO of AP in 2001. On June 21, prior to his gubernatorial ambition in 2018, Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc. announced Abdullahi Sule as the substantive Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Company.

Politics

He won the gubernatorial primaries for Nasarawa State of the

on October 1, 2018. On March 10, 2019, Engineer Abdullahi Sule was declared as the Governor-elect of Nasarawa State at the 2019 Nasarawa gubernatorial election which held on March 9, 2019. He was sworn in as governor of Nasarawa State on May 29, 2019.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sule, Abdullahi 1959 births Living people Nigerian businesspeople Governors of Nasarawa State Indiana University alumni All Progressives Congress politicians People from Nasarawa State

Early life and education

Career

Politics

See also

References