Abubakar Kyari: Profile Of Acting APC National Chairman

Senator Abubakar Kyari, on Monday, emerged as the acting National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Kyari, who was the Deputy National Chairman (North), emerged as the new leader of the party at an emergency National Working Committee (NWC) meeting held at the party Secretariat in Abuja.

Naija News reports that this development follows the sudden resignation of the embattled former national chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu.

Below is the profile of the acting APC National Chairman.

Senator Abubakar Kyari was born on 15 January 1963 (59) in Borno State. His father was the Late Brigadier Abba Kyari – Former military administrator to North Central from 1967 to 1975. He has eight siblings.

Kyari was educated in both Nigeria and the United States of America.

He attended Capital School Kaduna for his primary education from 1968 to 1974, and Barewa College Zaria for his secondary education from 1974 to 1979, where he obtained his WASSCE In 1979.

Kyari obtained a bachelor’s degree (B.Sc.) in Economics from the University of Tennessee, in 1986 and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) with emphasis on Finance from Webster University, St. Louis Missouri, USA in 1989.

Senator Kyari’s political career started in 1996 when he became a founding member and Protem National Secretary of the United Nigeria Congress (UNC), which eventually became the United Nigeria Congress Party (UNCP).

He was subsequently elected and appointed to some other political positions over a period of 26 years.

Kyari was elected to be a member of the Borno State House of Representatives under the defunct United Nigeria Congress Party (UNCP) in 1998.

He represented his constituency at the National House of Assembly on the platform of the defunct All Peoples Party (APP) between 1999 -2003.

From 2003 to 2005, he was made a Honorable Commissioner in Borno State and also from 2007 to 2011 he continued as a Honorable Commissioner.

In the 2015 elections, he contested for the Borno North Senatorial seat and won under the platform of the All Progressives Congress.

1) Elected to the House of Representatives (UNCP) 1998

2) State Treasurer All Peoples Party APP Borno State 1998 – 1999

3) Re-Elected to the House of Representatives (APP) 1999 – 2003

4) Hon Commissioner Water Resources, Borno State 2003 – 2005

5) MD Rural Water Supply Agency, Borno State 2005 – 2007

6) Hon Commissioner Education, Borno State 2007 – 2008

7) Hon Commissioner Water Resources, Borno State 2008 – 2010

8) Hon Commissioner Home Affairs and Information 2010 – 2011

9) Hon Commissioner Works 2011 – 2011

10) Chief of Staff, Government House Borno State 2011 – 2014

11) Elected Senator Federal Republic of Nigeria (APC) 2015 – 2019

12) Re-Elected Senator (APC) 2019 – date

With the wealth of experience in government and politics, especially since the return of democracy in Nigeria in 1999, Senator Abubakar Kyari is well positioned for the task to champion a new beginning for the party.

Married for 32 years, Senator Abubakar Kyari is blessed with 4 children and a grandson.