*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.*
Hafsat Uba Sani (2023–present) — incumbent#
Wife of Uba Sani · 29 May 2023 — present
Amina Yakowa (2010–2012)#
Wife of Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa · 20 May 2010 — 15 December 2012
Widowed in office by the Okoroba helicopter crash of 15 December 2012, which killed the governor and the former National Security Adviser Owoye Azazi.
Amina Namadi Sambo (2007–2010)#
Wife of Namadi Sambo · 29 May 2007 — 19 May 2010
Went on to become Wife of the Vice-President, 2010–2015. See the federal register.
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.