Khairat Abdulrazaq-Gwadabe
Khairat Abdulrazaq-Gwadabe | |
|---|---|
| Senator for Abuja FCT | |
| In office 29 May 1999 – 29 May 2003 | |
| Succeeded by | Isah Maina |
| Personal details | |
| Born | April 1957 (age 66–67) Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria |
Khairat Abdulrazaq-Gwadabe (born 1957) is a Nigerian politician. She was elected Senator for the
Abdulrazaq-Gwadabe is a sister to Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq and wife to Colonel Lawan Gwadabe, a former military governor of Niger State.[2] She was born in Ilorin in April 1957.[3] She studied law at the University of Buckingham.[4] After taking her seat in the Senate she was appointed to committees on the Environment, Health, Women Affairs (chairman), Federal Character, Tourism & Culture and Federal Capital Territory.[5] She was a member of the Panel of Review of Nigeria Customs and Excise.[6]
Abdulrazaq-Gwadabe was a contender to be PDP candidate for her senate seat in 2003, but lost in the primaries. This may have been due to her previous support for a move to impeach President Olusegun Obasanjo.[6] In January 2003 she announced that she was moving to the
In August 2005, six years after marriage, Abdulrazaq-Gwadabe gave birth to her first child, a boy, at a hospital in Miami, Florida, US. She was aged 48. The father of the new baby, Colonel Lawan Gwadabe, was former military governor of Niger State.[8] As of December 2011, Senator Abdulrazaq-Gwadabe was the chairman of the Senators Forum, through which former and serving senators share their knowledge and experience.[9]
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- ^ a b Oma Djebah, Louis Achi and Utibe Uko. "2003: National Lawmakers Who Won't Return". ThisDay. Archived from the original on 2010-09-08. Retrieved 2010-06-18.
- ^ Bature Umar (2003-01-27). "Senate: PDP's Loss, Other Parties' Gain". ThisDay. Archived from the original on 2010-09-08. Retrieved 2010-06-18.
- ^ "Miracle Baby for Ex-Senator". ThisDay. 2005-08-30. Retrieved 2010-06-18.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "MARK TASKS SENATOR'S FORUM ON NATION BUILDING". News Agency of Nigeria. December 18, 2011. Archived from the original on March 15, 2013. Retrieved 2012-07-18.
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