Interesting Facts About Incoming Members Of Senate

Sixteen former governors will join Nigeria's 8th senate. Some of them are still incumbent governors, others ex-governors already and some are even returnee senators.

During the 2015 elections, only senators from the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were voted into power. The next Senate will also be men-dominated as only eight out of the 109 members are going to be females in the Chamber of the National Assembly.

Sixty of the senators have been elected on the APC platform while the PDP has got only 49 elected members.

Three of the eight female-senators are of the APC: Oluremi Tinubu, who is a ranking member of the Red Chamber from the Lagos Central Senatorial District; the incumbent Speaker of the Oyo State House of Assembly, Alhaja Monsurat Sunmonu; and Binta Masi Garba from Adamawa North.

The five other women are from the PDP. They will be joining the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly afresh. Anambra and Ekiti states produced two each and the other is from Cross River state.

From Anambra are: House of Representatives member Uche Ekwunife (Central) and the former aviation minister Stella Oduah. The two elected Senators from Ekiti are Abiodun Olujimi (South), who was Governor Ayodele Fayose’s deputy from 2003 to October 16, 2006, when they were impeached by 24 of the 26-members of the House of Assembly, and Fatima Raji-Rasaki (Central), a House of Representatives member between 2003 and 2007. Fatima is the wife of the former military administrator of Oyo and Lagos states, Brig-Gen. Raji Rasaki (rtd).

The fifth female PDP senator-elect is Rose Okoh, Cross River (North). She has been indisposed since her nomination as the PDP candidate. She did not participate in the campaigns.

The list of senators-elect:

•Mao Ohuabunwa (Abia North)

•Former Governor of Abia state, Theodore Orji (Abia Central)

•Enyinnaya Abaribe (Abia South)

•Bassey Albert Akpan (A/Ibom North)

•Incumbent Governor of Ikwa Ibom state, Godswill Akpabio (A/Ibom West)

•Nelson Effiong (A/Ibom South)

•Uche Ekwunife (Anambra Central)

•Andy Uba (Anambra South)

•Stella Oduah (Anambra North)

•Ben Murray-Bruce (Bayelsa East)

•Emanuel Paulker (Bayelsa Central)

•Ogola Foster (Bayelsa West)

•David Mark (Benue South)

•Rose Oko ( Cross River North)

•Gershom Bassey(C/River South)

•John Enoh (Cross River Central)

•Alfred Joseph (Delta Central)

•Peter Nwaboshi (Delta North)

•James Manager (Delta South)

•Ogba Joseph (Ebonyi Central)

•Former Governor of Ebonyi state, Samuel Egwu (Ebonyi North)

•Sunday Oji (Ebonyi South)

•Clifford Ordia (Edo Central)

•Mathew Urhoghide (Edo South)

•Duro Faseyi (Ekiti North)

•Fatimat Raji-rasaki (Ekiti Central)

•Biodun Olujimi (Ekiti South)

•Gilbert Nnaji (Enugu East)

•Ike Ekweremadu (Enugu West)

•Utazi Chukwuka (Enugu North)

•Philips Aduda (FCT)

•Joshua Lidani (Gombe South)

•Samuel Anyanwu (Imo East)

•Uzodinma Goodhope (Imo West)

•Achonu Nneji (Imo North)

•Danjuma La’ah (Kaduna South)

•Philip Aruwa Gyunka (Nasarawa North)

•Buruji Kashamu (Ogun East)

•Yele Omogunwa (Ondo South)

•Jeremiah Useni (Plateau South)

•Former Governor of Plateau state, Joshua Dariye (Plateau Central)

•Incumbent Governor of Plateau state, Jang Jonah (Plateau North)

•George Sekibo (Rivers East)

•Olaka Nwogu (Rivers S/East)

•Osinakachukwu Ideozu (Rivers West)

•Mohammed Hasan (Yobe South)

•Abubakar Sani Danladi (Taraba North)

•Bashir Marafa (Taraba Central)

•Emmanuel Bwacha (Taraba South)

•Binta Masi Garba (Adamawa North)

•Ahmadu Abubakar (Adamawa South)

•Abdul Aziz Murtala Nyako (Adamawa Central)

•Isah Hamma Misau (Bauchi Central)

•Ali Wakili (Bauchi South)

•Suleiman Nazif (Bauchi North)

•Barnabas Gemade (Benue East)

•Former Governor of Benue state and minority leader of the current Senate, Akume George (Benue West)

•Abubakar Kyari (Borno North)

•Ahmad Zannah (Borno Central)

•Ali Ndume (Borno South)

•Francis Alimikhena (Edo North)

•Bayero Nafada (Gombe North)

•Former Governor of Gombe state, Goje Danjuma (Gombe Central)

•Abubakar Gumel (Jigawa N/West)

•Sabo Mohammed (Jigawa S/West)

•Muhammad Shitu (Jigawa N/East)

•Suleiman Hunkuyi (Kaduna North)

•Shehu Sani (Kaduna Central)

•Barau Jibrin (Kano North)

•Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano Central)

•Returnee senator Kabiru Gaya (Kano South)

•Mustapha Bukar (Katsina North)

•Abu Ibrahim (Katsina South)

•Umaru Kurfi (Katsina Central)

•Yahaya Abdullahi (Kebbi North)

•Former Governor of Kebbi state and returnee senator, Adamu Aliero (Kebbi Central)

•Bala Ibn Na’allah (Kebbi South)

•Dino Melaye (Kogi West)

•Abdulsalami Ohiare (Kogi Central)

•Abdulrahman Abubakar (Kogi East)

•Former Governor of Kwara State and current senator for Kwara North, Shaába Lafiagi (Kwara North)

•Former Governor of Kwara state and current senator for Kwara Central, Bukola Saraki (Kwara Central)

•Rafiu Ibrahim (Kwara South)

•Oluremi Tinubu (Lagos Central)

•Olugbenga Ashafa (Lagos East)

•Adeola Olamilekan (Lagos West)

•Former Governor of Nasarawa state, Abdullahi Adamu (Nasarawa West)

•Salihu Hussain Egye (Nasarawa South)

•Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi ( Niger North)

•Mustapha Sani (Niger South)

•David Umaru (Niger East)

•Olanrewaju Tejuoso (Ogun Central)

•Gbolahan Dada (Ogun West)

•Ajayi Boroffice (Ondo North)

•Tayo Alasoadura (Ondo Central)

•Olusola Adeyeye (Osun Central)

•Babajide Omoworare (Osun East)

•Returnee senator Isiaka Adeleke (Osun West)

•Monsurat Sunmonu (Oyo Central)

•Buhari Abdulfatai (Oyo North)

•Adesoji Akanbi (Oyo South)

•Ibrahim Gobir (Sokoto East)

•Former Governor of Sokoto state, Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto North)

•Ibrahim Abdullahi (Sokoto South)

•Former Governor of Yobe state, Bukar Baba Ibrahim (Yobe East)

•Ahmad Lawan (Yobe North)

•Kabir Garba Marafa (Zamfara Central)

•Tijjani Yahaya Kaura (Zamfara North)

•Former Governor of Zamfara state and current senator of Zamfara West, Ahmed Rufai Sani (Zamfar West)

Source: Legit.ng