*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.*
*The incumbent state First Lady is not publicly recorded in a primary register in this pass — TBC. See the note on the emirate-belt Government Houses above.*
Fatima Yelwa Goje (d.) and Aminatu Dahiru Binani (2003–2011)#
Wife of Mohammed Danjuma Goje · 29 May 2003 — 28 May 2011
Gombe is one of the few emirate-belt states where the Government House register names more than one wife of a serving governor.
Aishatu Abubakar Hashidu (1999–2003)#
Wife of Abubakar Habu Hashidu · 29 May 1999 — 28 May 2003
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.