Current List of 36 State Governors in Nigeria & Political Parties (2024)

Last updated on January 3rd, 2024 at 07:10 pm

Before we delve into the names of state governors in Nigeria and their parties, note that the Nigerian constitution stipulates that “A person shall be eligible for the office of State Governor in Nigeria if he or she is a citizen of Nigeria by birth, at least 35 years of age, is a member of a political party and is sponsored by that political party.

The constitution limits these Nigerian state governors to only two terms of four-year terms in office. Below is a compiled list of the 36 state governors in Nigeria.

In 2023, elections were dully held in many states for governors while state assemblies will also have their elections in the 36 states. The states that won’t participate in the governorship elections are Edo, Ondo, Ekiti, Bayelsa, Anambra and Osun states as the tenures of their governors are yet to expire.

As it stands, APC has more control in majority of the states in Nigeria while PDP won few other states especially in the southern region of the country.

We have the updated list of governors elected in the 2023 election and if there are changes, we shall dully add them as some states might still hold their elections.

THE FULL LIST OF 36 STATE GOVERNORS IN NIGERIA IN 2024

Nigerians cast their ballots for their preferred candidates for governor on March 18 in 28 states of the federation, representing a variety of political parties. The Independent National Electoral Commission is now announcing the election’s results (INEC).

After the presidential election, the political landscape in many states shifted, with political groups clinging to wins after falling to the opposition on March 25.

The All Progressive Congress (APC) had previously lost the presidential election in Lagos to the Labour Party, but things turned around during the governorship elections held on Saturday. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the APC has been named the victor, with Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party coming in a distant second. While there were numerous instances of reported violence and voter suppression throughout the election, the LP candidate alleged rigging.

The same thing happened in Oyo, where Teslim Folarin of the APC trailed Seyi Makinde of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) by a significant margin, in contrast to what happened during the presidential election, which the APC won.

The PDP had won the presidential election in Katsina, but the APC quickly gained control of the scene after INEC declared Dikko Radda of the APC the election’s victor.

In Kaduna, the race between Uba Sani of the APC and his rival from the PDP is close, and a winner has not yet been named. Nonetheless, in Sokoto, APC triumphed against PDP despite the latter party winning the state’s presidential election.

Although the PDP’s Dauda Lawal is ahead of the APC’s Bello Matawalle as governor of Zamfara after results from five of the state’s 14 local governments were made public, the APC won the presidential election there.

Despite the governor of Benue endorsing the LP’s Peter Obi, the APC won the state’s presidential election and is currently in the lead in the race for governor.

In Ogun, APC governor Dapo Abiodun narrowly overcame his PDP rival, who had contested the INEC declaration, to keep his position.

Badaru Abubakar, the departing governor of Jigawa, joined the group of APC leaders who had won both the governorship and the presidential elections in their respective states. The APC’s Umar Namadi was proclaimed the winner, and Sule Lamido, a former governor of the state and PDP leader, was unable to install his son as the next governor.

In Kano, the NNPP has gained the majority of the votes, just like it did in the presidential election. On Monday morning, INEC is anticipated to announce that the NNPP has won the governorship race. In the tight race between the APC and PDP in Kebbi, a winner has not yet been announced.

Plateau supported the LP’s Peter Obi in the presidential election, but the PDP and the APC are presently in a close contest for the governorship, and this is quickly changing.

Governor Abdulrahman Abdurazak of the APC won a second term in Kwara. Niger State has also been kept by the APC.

With just one local government still to be chosen, Aishatu Binani of the APC lags Governor Umaru Fintiri of the PDP in Adamawa. Binani, on the other hand, thinks she stands a good chance of narrowing the gap with a decisive victory in Fufore, the final local government. She wants to become the first female state governor in Nigeria.

If he retains his early advantage, APC Governor Babagana Zulum has a good chance of winning re-election in Borno. The current governors of the APC have been re-elected in Gombe and Yobe.

The Obi tsunami is still a serious threat to the southeast, but it is not without problems. For instance, the LP is comfortably ahead in Abia while having trouble with the PDP in Enugu. Nonetheless, the APC candidate for governor of Ebonyi is expected to be proclaimed victorious.

The Obi tsunami is dead in Rivers since the PDP and APC are battling it out for the win, with the APC now leading. The APC governorship candidate in Cross River enjoys a sizable advantage. Meanwhile, PDP has jumped out to an early lead in the governorship poll in Delta.

FULL LIST OF NIGERIA’S 36 STATE GOVERNORS, THEIR DEPUTES AND POLITICAL PARTIES (2024)

STATE	GOVERNOR		DEPUTY GOVERNOR		PARTY		TOOK OFFICE	TERM END
Abia State		Alex Otti		Ikechukwu Emetu		LP	2023	2027
Adamawa State		Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri		Kaletapwa Farauta		PDP	2019	2027
Akwa Ibom State		Umo Eno		Akon Eyakenyi		PDP	2023	2027
Anambra State		Charles Soludo		Onyeka Ibezim		APGA	2022	2026
Bauchi State		Bala Muhammed		Auwal Jatau		PDP	2019	2027
Bayelsa State		Douye Diri		Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo		PDP	2020[a]	2024
Benue State		Hyacinth Alia		Samuel Ode		APC	2023	2027
Borno State		Babagana Zulum		Umar Usman Kadafur		APC	2019	2027
Cross River State		Bassey Otu		Peter Odey		APC	2023	2027
Delta State		Sheriff Oborevwori		Monday Onyeme		PDP	2023	2027
Ebonyi State		Francis Nwifuru		Patricia Obila		APC	2023	2027
Edo State		Godwin Obaseki		Philip Shaibu		PDP	2016	2024
Ekiti State		Biodun Oyebanji		Monisade Afuye		APC	2022	2026
Enugu State		Peter Mbah		Ifeanyi Ossai		PDP	2023	2027
Gombe State		Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya		Manasseh Daniel Jatau		APC	2019	2027
Imo State		Hope Uzodinma		Placid Njoku		APC	2024	2028
Jigawa State		Umar Namadi		Aminu Usman		APC	2023	2027
Kaduna State		Uba Sani		Hadiza Balarabe		APC	2023	2027
Kano State		Abba Kabir Yusuf		Aminu Abdussalam Gwarzo		NNPP	2023	2027
Katsina State		Dikko Umaru Radda		Faruk Lawal Jobe		APC	2023	2027
Kebbi State		Nasir Idris		Abubakar Umar Argungu		APC	2023	2027
Kogi State		Yahaya Bello		Edward Onoja		APC	2016	2024
Kwara State		AbdulRahman AbdulRasaq		Kayode Alabi		APC	2019	2027
Lagos State		Babajide Sanwo-Olu		Femi Hamzat		APC	2019	2027
Nasarawa State		Abdullahi Sule		Emmanuel Akabe		APC	2019	2027
Niger State		Mohammed Umar Bago		Yakubu Garba		APC	2023	2027
Ogun State		Dapo Abiodun		Noimot Salako-Oyedele		APC	2019	2027
Ondo State		Lucky Aiyedatiwa				APC	2023	2025
Osun State		Ademola Adeleke		Kola Adewusi		PDP	2022	2026
Oyo State		Seyi Makinde		Bayo Lawal		PDP	2019	2027
Plateau State		Caleb Mutfwang		Josephine Piyo		PDP	2023	2027
Rivers State		Siminalayi Fubara		Ngozi Odu		PDP	2023	2027
Sokoto State		Ahmad Aliyu		Idris Muhammad Gobir		APC	2023	2027
Taraba State		Agbu Kefas		Aminu Abdullahi Alkali		PDP	2023	2027
Yobe State		Mai Mala Buni		Idi Barde Gubana		APC	2019	2027
Zamfara State		Dauda Lawal		Mani Mallam Mummuni		PDP	2023	2027

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LIST OF ALL STATES CONTROLLED BY PDP GOVERNORS PRESENTLY

From the above you can deduce that the names of APC governors in Nigeria are more in number because they are the leading party that recently won majority of the governors seats in Nigeria.

FULL LIST OF NAMES OF ALL NEW WINNERS IN GOVERNORSHIP ELECTIONS ACROSS NIGERIA 2023

• Abba Kabir (Kano) NNPP
• Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos) APC
• Dapo Abiodun (Ogun) APC
• AbdulRahman Abdulrazaq (Kwara) APC
• Inuwa Yahaya (Gombe) APC
• Mai Mala Muni (Yobe) APC
• AbdulRahman Sule (Nasarawa) APC
• Babagana Zulum (Borno) APC
• Umar Namadi (Jigawa) APC
• Ahmed Aliyu Sokoto (Sokoto) APC
• Dikko Radda (Katsina) APC
• Uba Sani (Kaduna) APC
• Bassey Otu (Cross River) APC
• Mohammed Bago (Niger) APC
• Fr. Hyacinth Alia (Benue) APC
• Francis Nwifuru (Ebonyi) APC
• Seyi Makinde (Oyo) PDP
• Bala Mohammed (Bauchi) PDP
• Umo Eno (Akwa Ibom) PDP
• Siminialayi Fubara (Rivers) PDP
• Kefas Agbu (Taraba) PDP
• Caleb Mutfwang (Plateau) PDP
• Sheriff Oborevwori (Delta) PDP
• Dauda Lawal (Zamfara) PDP