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Ohere Sadiku Abubakar
Distinguish Senator Ohere Sadiku Abubakar
Senator for Kogi Central
	In office; June 2023 – November 2023
Preceded by	Yakubu Oseni
Special Adviser on Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs
	In office; January 2016 – August 2019
Governor	Yahaya Bello
Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs
	In office; August 2019 – December 2019
Commissioner for Works and Housing
	In office; 27 January 2020 – 16 April 2022
Personal details
Born	13 July 1966 (age 58); Okene, Kogi State, Nigeria
Political party	All Progressives Congress
Occupation	Engineer, politician
Website	abubakarohere.com

Ohere Sadiku Abubakar FNSE, (born July 13, 1966) is a Nigerian politician and senator currently serving for the Kogi Central Senatorial District.^[2] He is from the Okene LGA in Kogi State.^[3] From January 2016 to December 2019, he held two significant roles in the Kogi State government, beginning as the Special Adviser of the Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, ^[4]before being appointed as the Commissioner for the Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs.^[5] In January 2020, with the commencement of the second term of Yahaya Bello, he was re-appointed to serve as the Commissioner for Works and Housing.^[6] Abubakar Ohere^[7] is a Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE).^[8]

Early life and education

Ohere Sadiku Abubakar was born on July 13, 1966, in Okene LGA, Kogi State. He was enrolled at St. Andrew's School, Okene in 1975 for his primary education. In 1979, he proceeded to Lennon Memorial College, Ageva, for his secondary education. He thereafter obtained a Ordinary National Diploma in Metallurgical Engineering from Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, and proceeded to the Federal Polytechnic, Idah, in 1992 for his Higher National Diploma. He has a master's degree in mining engineering (M.Eng.) from the Federal University of Technology, Akure.^[9]

Civil Service

Engr. Ohere joined the Federal Civil Service in 1996. His working career spanned about 20 years, beginning as a field engineer and gradually rising to the management level in the Federal Ministry of Mines and Steel Development.^[10]

Fellowships and memberships

Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers
Fellow of the Institute of Industrialists and Corporate Administrators (IICA)
Corporate Member of the Nigerian Society of Mining Engineers (NSME)
Member of the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN)
Member of the Council of Nigerian Mining Engineers and Geoscientists (COMEG)

Political career

His sojourn into politics began with a political appointment in January 2016, and this led to a pause in his civil service career as he accepted the role to serve under the New Direction Government of His Excellency, Governor Yahaya Bello from January 2016 to August 2019 as a Special Adviser,^[11] overseeing the affairs of the Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs. In 2019, he was appointed Honorable Commissioner, Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, until December 2019, with the same functions of overseeing the affairs of the Ministry. In January 2020,^[12] at the inception of the second tenure of His Excellency, Governor Yahaya Bello, he was appointed again into his cabinet to serve as the Honorable Commissioner for Works and Housing,^[13] a position he voluntarily resigned from on the 16th day of April 2022, to participate as a candidate in the senatorial elections for Kogi Central Senatorial District^[14] in the Federal Legislature.^[15]

Ohere was initially declared the winner of the 2023 Kogi Central Senatorial Election on February 25, 2023 by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), ^[16] but he spent less than seven months in the Nigerian Senate, as this electoral victory was overturned on October 31, 2023 by the Court of Appeal in Abuja, and his opponent Natasha Akpoti of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) was declared as the rightful winner of the elections. ^[17]

Senate Stewardship

February 27, 2023 - Declared by INEC as Senator Elect Kogi Central Senatorial District. ^[18]
June 13, 2023 - Inaugurated as Member of the 10th Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. ^[19]
July, 2023 - Appointed Chairman Senate Committee on Local Content alongside membership in Senate Committees of Works, Solid Minerals, FCT, Health etc.^[20]
Member Senate Ad hoc Committee on East-West Roads.
Vacates seat November 2023. ^[1]