Career
Rabi'u Musa Kwankwaso worked with Kano State Government for 17 years and rose through the cadre of the civil service to the rank of Principal Engineer. In 1992, he left the state civil service and vied for election into the Federal House of Representatives and was elected as the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives. In 1994, he was elected as a Delegate to the Constitutional Conference.
In 1999, he was elected as the Executive Governor of Kano state under the platform of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and served a four-year term from 1999 - 2003.. He seeks for re-election and lost to the All Nigerian People's Party Candidate (ANPP).
Kwankwaso was appointed Minister of Defence, Federal Republic of Nigeria from 2003 - 2006 and was appointed as Special Adviser to the President on Dafur and Somalia in 2006 - 2007. He was later appointed as the Representative of the North-West geo-political zone in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NNDC) from 2009 - 2010.
Gov. Kwankwaso made a historic come-back eight years after vacating the Government House, with a political ideology known as the "KWANKWASIYYA MOVEMENT" which is symbolized by the Red Cap and White brocade.
Gov. Kwankwaso's mission as the architect of the Kwankwasiyya Movement is to transform the state back to its leading role amongst states of the federation in most spheres of human endeavors.
Indeed, within a spate of just barely a year and a half, the state has witnessed an unprecedented socio-economic and infrastructural transformation as promised. His Excellency, Gov. Rabi'u Musa Kwankwaso, fnse is the elected Governor of Kano State under the platform of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in 2011
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