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Gbemisola Ruqayyah Saraki Biography, Age, Height, Husband, Net Worth, Family

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Gbemisola Ruqayyah Saraki was born on 3 May, 1965. Discover Gbemisola Ruqayyah Saraki's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 58 years old?

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Age58 years old
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Born3 May, 1965
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Gbemisola Ruqayyah Saraki Height, Weight & Measurements

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ParentsAbubakar Olusola Saraki
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Gbemisola Ruqayyah Saraki Net Worth

Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Gbemisola Ruqayyah Saraki worth at the age of 58 years old? Gbemisola Ruqayyah Saraki’s income source is mostly from being a successful . She is from . We have estimated Gbemisola Ruqayyah Saraki's net worth , money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2023$1 Million - $5 Million
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Timeline

The Minister of State for Transportation, Senator Gbemisola Saraki is a cerebral thinker,a strong intellectual politician swimming in the world of developmental ideas.Spell bound she held egg heads at University of Ilorin Post Graduate in February, 2020 where she delivered a speech on youth participation and inclusion.

Gbemisola Ruqayyah Saraki is currently the Minister of State Transportation of the Federal Republic of Nigeria appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari on 21st August, 2019 and former senator who was elected to represent the Kwara central Senatorial district in the year 2003 under the platform of the People's Democratic Party. She was elected into the House of Representatives in 1999 representing Asa/Ilorin West Federal Constituency, Kwara State. She’s a sibling to Former Senate President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (8th Assembly), Bukola Saraki.

On 21 August 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari appointed her as the Minister of State for Transportation.

Gbemisola was also a returning member of the ECOWAS Parliament. Saraki defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) on the eve of the 2015 presidential election. In February 2016, Saraki was appointed by President Muhammed Buhari as the Pro Chancellor and Chairperson of the Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa State. On 13 February 2017, Saraki was also appointed as one of the 16-member committee to re-negotiate its 2009 agreement with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)

Her father is Abubakar Olusola Saraki, who was a leading senator of the Second Nigerian Republic (1979–1983) and father of politics in Kwara State. Her brother, Abubakar Bukola Saraki was governor of Kwara State, Nigeria from 29 May 2003 to 29 May 2011 and was the President of the Senate in the 8th Senate in Nigeria. She is divorced from an architect Olusegun Fowora whom she had married in 1990 and has 2 children, a daughter Tiwalola Oyinkansola Fowora born in 1991 and a son, Olaotan Fowora born in 1995.

Gbemisola R. Saraki was elected as a member of the House of Representatives in 1999 under the umbrella of the All People's Party (APP). She ran under the umbrella of the People's Democratic Party, (PDP) for the senate in 2003 and won the seat, representing the Central Senatorial District of Kwara State. She re-contested in 2007 and won again, serving as a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for eight years. 2003-2011. In 2011 she relinquished her senatorial seat to contest the gubernatorial election of Kwara State under the ACPN party, losing election to the winner, the PDP's Abdul Fatah Ahmed. As a legislator 2003-2011 she was a member of several committees. At the Senate in 2007-2011 Gbemisola Saraki chaired the Senate Committee on National Planning, Poverty Alleviation and Economic Affairs. She also acted as Vice-Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Saraki attended the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom and earned a bachelor's degree in Economics. She did her national service at the Nigeria Bank for Commerce and Industry, Lagos. She worked for the Societe Generale Bank (Nigeria) with the post of the Head of Money Markets and later as Head of Domiciliary Accounts. From 1994 to 1999 she was Executive Director of Ashmount Insurance Brokers, Lagos.