Biography of late patrick ibrahim yakowa
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Yakowa:The Last Interview
We got the call just after midnight breaking the news that we could - after three days of dogged pursuit - interview the Governor the next morning.
Sitting across from Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa at 7am on a Monday morning recently, what struck my colleagues, Tatiana Valle, Regional Director Mercedes Pagalday and I as journalists and communications’ specialists working in Nigeria, was His Excellency’s commitment to promoting Kaduna. It was our earliest meeting since starting work on a special nation branding report on Nigeria for United World, an international press agency operating in exclusive partnership with USA Today - yet we soon discovered Gov. Yakowa had already been awake for two hours before the interview.
Gov. Yakowa was Kaduna through and through. His dedication to his State that day was etched across his face: passionate, enduring, committed and smiling his unmistakeable smile, he loved Kaduna. Indeed, he yearned for the nor
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Patrick Yakowa
Nigerian politician (1948–2012)
Patrick Yakowa | |
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| In office 20 May 2010 – 15 månad 2012 | |
| Deputy | Mukhtar Yero |
| Preceded by | Namadi Sambo |
| In office 21 July 2005 – 20 May 2010 | |
| Governor | Namadi Sambo (2007–2010) |
| Preceded by | Stephen Shekari |
| Succeeded by | Mukhtar Yero |
| Born | Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa 1 månad 1948 Fadan Kagoma, Jema'a, nordlig Region, British Nigeria (now in Kaduna State, Nigeria) |
| Died | 15 December 2012(2012-12-15) (aged 64) Okoroba forest, Nembe, Bayelsa State, Nigeria |
| Resting place | Fadan Kagoma, Jema'a, Kaduna State, Nigeria |
| Political party | Peoples Democratic Party |
| Spouse | Amina Yakowa |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater | Ahmadu Bello University |
| Occupation | Politician |
Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa (1 December 1948 – 15 December 2012) was a Nigerian politician who served as governor of Kaduna State from 2010 to 2012. He was appointed deputy governor of Kaduna State in July 2005, fo
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PEOPLE AND POLITICS BY MOHAMMED HARUNA
Sir Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa (1948 to 2012)
ndajika@yahoo.com
Sir Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, who died tragically in an helicopter crash last Saturday in the jungles of Bayelsa State, was a good man. I first met him in 1971 through Mr. Aboki Galadima, his childhood friend who was to become his chief of staff as governor of Kaduna State. I was Galadima’s “fag” as a third year student in Government College, Bida, where he came to do his Higher School Certificate (HSC) from Government Secondary School, Abuja, both in Niger State.
When I first met Yakowa, himself and Galadima were undergraduates at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. I was a “Basico” (student of then two-year-old School of Basic Studies of the university established jointly by the then six Northern states to prepare secondary students from the region for direct admission). When we first met the man struck me as nice and somewhat withdrawn.