 Rabiu Kwankwaso

Rabi'u Musa Kwankwaso, FNSE, FNIQS is a Nigerian Muslim politician who was the Governor of Kano State from 1999 to 2003 and 2011 to 2015.He was elected to the Senate in 2015, under the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, representing the Kano central senatorial district.. After he lost his re-election in 2003, he was appointed the first civilian Minister of Defence of the Fourth Republic from 2003 to 2007.