Buhari's Favourite State Governors

President Muhammadu Buhari since inception into his administration in May 2015 has shown preference for some State governors.


However, factors responsible for this are unexplainable why an individual likes one person and does not feel comfortable with another person.

Here are 7 governors we feel the Nigerian president has preference for:

Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun state governor)

Governor Amosun is one of President Buhari's favourite state governors. Apart from his (Buhari) visit to Ogun state to mark the 40th Anniversary of the state to the cancellation of Lagos trip to honour Governor Ibikunle Amosun at the Presidential Villa, Abuja shows a greater concern that the president knows his people.

Nasir Elrufai (Kaduna State governor)

Apart from anointing the candidacy of the Governor Nasir Elrufai, the President has visited Kaduna state as part of the few states the President has visited in the country since inception of his administration.

El-rufai few months ago said President Muhammadu Buhari forced him to contest last year’s governorship election.

He was quoted as saying that without the encouragement he received from Buhari, who was then the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress ( APC ), he would not have won the election.

“It was President Muhammadu Buhari that forced me to contest for the governorship race of Kaduna state in revenge for persuading him to run the presidential race,” he was quoted as saying.

Aminu Bello Masari (Katsina state governor)

President Buhari and Masari were presidential and governorship candidates under the defunct Congress for Progressives Change (CPC) respectively in 2011.

Also Katsina is the home state of the president, Buhari will never joke with the person leading the state, especially when the president and such a person have the same political ideology and also are in the same political camp.

Prof. Ben Ayade (Cross River Governor)

President Muhammadu Buhari has on several occasions commended the works of Prof. Ben Ayade of Cross River especially during the inspection of the superhighway being constructed by the governor.

The Governor of Cross River State, Senator Ben Ayade, recently justified his seeming closeness to President Muhammadu Buhari despite belonging to different political parties.

At a point, he was accused by his political party has been closed to the Presidency.

Either by an act of commission or omission, the Cross River governor is today considered as one of the few among the PDP governors who enjoys a cordial working relationship with President Buhari

Kashim Shettima (Borno state governor)

Governor Shettima should be nicknamed ‘the governor with nine lives.’ The simple reason for this is because the governor has weathered the storm of Boko Haram insurgency for at least five years. His never-say-die attitude deserves applause by all and sundry.

During Buhari’s electioneering campaign, he stated that Borno is one of his topmost priorities. Indeed, the president has kept to his words by challenging the Nigerian troops to decimate insurgency in the state.

President Buhari has visited Borno many times and has assured the governor severally he will always stand by him in order to return the state to its glorious days before terrorism crippled all aspects of life there.

Abdulaziz Yari (Zamfara state governor)

Governor Yari is the chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF).
Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara state Yari could be said to be one of the right hand men of Buhari among all the Northern governors during and after the 2015 general elections.

President Buhari trusts the Zamfara state governor that he chose his state as one of the very few he has visited in the month of July. The president did not just go on sight-seeing in the Northwest state; he commissioned some massive road projects there.

Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo state governor)

Governor Ajimobi is also of the the close ally of President Buhari. He has on a several occasions traveled with the presidency to foreign trips and events.

He was also part of the defunct ANPP with President Buhari.

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