Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje is the serving Governor of Kano State, elected on 13 April 2015, and sworn in on 29 May 2015, under ruling party, All Progressive Congress (APC). He is also a former two-time Deputy Governor of Kano State, serving from 1999 to 2003 and 2011 to 2015.

Ganduje is a Fulani descent, born in Ganduje village of Dawakin Tofa Local Government Area of Kano State on December 25, 1949. He is married and has seven children.

He started his early education in Qur'anic and Islamiyya school at his village Ganduje where he became trained in Islamic knowledge. He later moved to headquarters of his local government where he attended Dawakin Tofa Primary School from 1956 to 1963. Ganduje attended the Government Secondary School Birnin Kudu from 1964 to 1968.


He obtained a Nigerian Certificate of Education (NCE) from Advance Teachers' College Kano between 1969 and 1972. He then attended Ahmadu Bello University, located in Zaria, Kaduna State, for a Bachelor of Science Education degree from 1972 to 1975.

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