*The office of State First Lady has no place in the 1999 Constitution — no section creates it, no law funds it. It is nevertheless the most consistently resourced unelected office in every Government House: a pet foundation, an office in the Governor's Lodge, seconded civil servants, and in most states a recurrent budget line. We record it for the same reason we record the federal office — because the money and the patronage are real even where the office is not.*
Lami Ahmadu Fintiri (2019–present) — incumbent#
Wife of Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri · 29 May 2019 — present
Binta Fatima Nyako (2008–2014)#
Wife of Murtala Nyako · 29 May 2008 — 15 July 2014
A serving judge of the Federal High Court throughout and after her husband's governorship — the only state First Lady of the Fourth Republic to hold substantive federal judicial office while in the role, and later the trial judge in several high-profile terrorism and corruption cases.
References
Sources#
- Government House protocol records and state First Lady foundation filings (Corporate Affairs Commission).
- INEC gubernatorial results sheets, 1999–2023, for the governors' tenure dates.
- Contemporaneous press: Vanguard, Punch, ThisDay, Daily Trust, Premium Times.