Mohammed Alabi Lawal (24 January 1946 – 15 November 2006) was a Nigerian naval officer who was military governor of

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between December 1987 and August 1990 during the military administration of General

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. He was one of the pioneers of the Nigeria Navy Secondary School Abeokuta.The then Navy Captain Mohammed Lawal, invited the Nigerian Navy to consider a location of the defunct St Leo's Teachers' Training College at Ibara Abeokuta (www.nnssab.net)on a hilly Onikolobo site. This premises had been abandoned and merely serve as a route to the Catholic Compound and was also used for administering a newly conceived secondary school in that name. The Nigerian Navy considered the site and found it suitable. After the return to democracy in 1999 he was elected governor of Kwara State, holding office from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2003. During the 1999 Kwara State gubernatorial election, Lawal was elected governor under the umbrella of the

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(APP). He was said to be a protégé of Senator Dr.

Abubakar Olusola Saraki Olusola Abubakar Saraki (17 May 1933 – 14 November 2012) was a Nigerian politician, who was a Senator in the Nigerian Second Republic (1979–1983). He was the holder of the chieftaincy title of the Waziri of the Ilorin Emirate, and belonged to ...

. Saraki later moved to the

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(PDP). Lawal initiated a N250 million libel action against a paper ''The People's Advocate'' based in Ilorin, published by

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but later withdrew the suit after the two men were reconciled. In the

2003 Kwara State gubernatorial election The 2003 Kwara State gubernatorial election occurred in Nigeria on April 19, 2003. The PDP nominee Bukola Saraki won the election, defeating Mohammed Lawal of the All Nigeria Peoples Party. Bukola Saraki emerged PDP candidate. He picked Joe ...

, he ran for reelection but lost as his previous supporter Abubakar Saraki backed his son Bukola Saraki as candidate for governor of Kwara state and his daughter Gbemisola R. Saraki as senator for Kwara State Central, both of whom were elected. In October 2006, it was reported that

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, chairman of the

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was investigating Lawal for alleged diversion of funds. Lawal died in a London hospital after a brief illness in November 2006.

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