{{Short description|Nigerian politician and lawyer (born 1965)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}} {{Use Nigerian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Ibrahim Hadejia | image = File:Ibrahim Hassan Hadejia1.jpg | alt = | caption = | office = Deputy Chief of Staff to the President | president = Bola Tinubu | term_start = 14 June 2023 | predecessor = Ade Ipaye | successor = | office1 = Senator for Jigawa North-East | term_start1 = 11 June 2019 | term_end1 = 11 June 2023 | predecessor1 = Ubali Shittu | successor1 = Ahmad Abdulhamid Malam Maori | office2 = Deputy Governor of Jigawa State | term_start2 = 29 May 2015 | term_end2 = 29 May 2019 | governor2 = Badaru Abubakar | predecessor2 = Ahmad Mahmud | successor2 = Umar Namadi | term_start3 = 22 January 2003 | term_end3 = 29 May 2007 | governor3 = Saminu Turaki | predecessor3 = Ubali Shittu | successor3 = Ahmad Mahmud | office4 = Attorney General of Jigawa State | term_start4 = 1999 | term_end4 = 2003 | governor4 = Saminu Turaki | predecessor4 = | successor4 = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1965}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | party = All Progressives Congress (2013–present) | other_party = {{plainlist| * All People's Party (1998–2002) * All Nigeria Peoples Party (2002–2013) }} | children = 6 | parents = | relations = | education = | occupation = {{hlist|Politician|lawyer}} | alma_mater = {{plainlist| * Ahmadu Bello University * Oxford University }} | profession = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Ibrahim Hassan Hadejia''' (born 1965) is a Nigerian lawyer and politician who has served as the deputy chief of staff to the president of Nigeria (office of the vice president) since 2023. He previously served as the Senator representing Jigawa North-East from 2019 to 2023,<ref>{{Cite news|date=25 February 2019|title=Jigawa deputy governor wins senatorial seat|url=https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/nwest/315943-jigawa-deputy-governor-wins-senatorial-seat.html|access-date=7 February 2021|language=en-GB|newspaper=Premium Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Homepage|url=https://dailytrust.com/|access-date=7 February 2021|newspaper=Daily Trust|language=en}}{{nonspecific|date=November 2024}}</ref> and as deputy governor of Jigawa State from 2003 to 2007 and from 2015 to 2019.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2020-11-15|title=How I survived as deputy to two governors — Senator Hadeija|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/11/how-i-survived-as-deputy-to-two-governors-senator-hadeija/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|access-date=2022-02-21|newspaper=Vanguard|language=en-US}}</ref>
== Education == Hadejia attended Sacred Heart Primary School Kaduna and Barewa College Zaria, after which he enrolled in the School of Basic Studies at Ahmadu Bello University for a year, passing the IJMB, which gave him the opportunity for direct admission in a degree course in law at the same institution in 1983. He graduated with a law degree in 1986 and went to the Law School Lagos for his B.L. qualification and subsequent call to Nigerian Bar. He also enrolled in diploma course at Oxford University, where he obtained a diploma in computing.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|author=<!--staff writer-->|date=6 March 2019|title=NEWBIES: Ex deputy governor, Hadejia, joins team Jigawa in Senate|url=https://www.orderpaper.ng/newbies-ex-deputy-governor-hadejia-joins-team-jigawa-in-senate/|access-date=6 February 2021|website=ORDER PAPER|language=en-US|archive-date=8 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210208112737/https://www.orderpaper.ng/newbies-ex-deputy-governor-hadejia-joins-team-jigawa-in-senate/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
== Career == thumb| Hadejia did his mandatory Youth Service in Lagos and worked for a year with Credit and Finance International, a finance house as in-house counsel and company secretary.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Two years later, he joined Liberty Merchant Bank Lagos, where he worked in credit administration, banking operations and international treasury for eight years.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
He was appointed Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General in Jigawa State in 1999 and promoted to secretary to the state government two years later.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
He was appointed the Deputy Governor before the elections in 2003 and ran again as a Deputy Governor on the ANPP tickets a few months later and continued in that position till 2007.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
From 2007 to 2014, he was engaged in private business in the insurance, construction and security consultancy sector and was also a partner in the law form of Hassan, Iman & co.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite news|title=2019: Jigawa Dep Gov declares for Senate|url=https://dailytrust.com/2019-jigawa-dep-gov-declares-for-senate-264684|access-date=8 February 2021|newspaper=Daily Trust|date=8 August 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
== Politics == In 2014, he was involved in the formation of the All Progressive Congress APC as a state leader of the ANPP, one of the three political parties that formed alliance and was elected Deputy Governor of Jigawa State on joint serving in that role from 2015 to 2018. He ran for and won a senate seat in 2018 and is the former senator representing the Jigawa North East senatorial zone.<ref>{{Cite news|date=26 April 2020|title=Party managers must change perception about internal democracy|url=https://thenationonlineng.net/party-managers-must-change-perception-about-internal-democracy-hadejia/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|access-date=8 February 2021|newspaper=The Nation|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=2019-02-25|title=Jigawa deputy governor wins senatorial seat|url=https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/nwest/315943-jigawa-deputy-governor-wins-senatorial-seat.html|access-date=2021-08-07|language=en-GB|newspaper=Premium Times}}</ref>
== References == {{reflist}}
{{Nigerian Senators of the 8th National Assembly}} {{Nigerian Senators of the 9th National Assembly}}
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