Government House is the name of many of the residences of Governors-General, Governors and Lieutenant-Governors in the Commonwealth and the remaining colonies of the British Empire. It serves as the venue for the Governor's official business, as well as the many receptions and functions hosted by the occupant. Sometimes, "Government House" is used as a metonym for the Governor or his office.

Government Houses in the Commonwealth of Nations[link]

Anguilla[link]

• Government House, Old Ta is the official residence of the Governor of Anguilla.

Antigua and Barbuda[link]

• Government House, St. John's is the official residence of the Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda.

Australia[link]

• Government House, Canberra, commonly known as Yarralumla, is the official residence of the Governor General of Australia.
• Admiralty House, Kirribilli is the Governor General's official residence in Sydney.
• Government Houses for the State Governors exist also in each State and the Northern Territory:
  • Government House, Sydney in New South Wales
  • Government House, Melbourne in Victoria; between 1901 and 1930 used by the Governor-General
  • Government House, Brisbane in Queensland
  • Government House, Perth in Western Australia
  • Government House, Adelaide in South Australia
  • Government House, Hobart in Tasmania
  • Government House, Darwin in the Northern Territory

The Bahamas[link]

• Government House, Duke Street, Nassau is the official residence of the Governor General of the Bahamas.

Barbados[link]

• Government House, Government Hill, St. Michael, Barbados is the official residence of the former Governors and Governors-General of Barbados.

Bermuda[link]

• Government House, Hamilton is the official residence of the Governor of Bermuda.

British Virgin Islands[link]

• Government House, Road Town, Tortola is the official residence of the Governor of the British Virgin Islands.

Canada[link]

• Rideau Hall in Ottawa is the official residence of the Governor General of Canada.
• Citadelle of Quebec in Quebec City, Quebec, is a second official residence for the Governor General, and is normally occupied for several weeks each year.
• Government Houses or official residences for the provincial Lieutenant Governors exist also in most Provinces and Territories.

Cayman Islands[link]

Government House, Seven Mile Beach, Grand Cayman is the official residence of the Governor of the Cayman Islands.

Dominica[link]

Government House, Roseau is the official residence of the President of Dominica.

Falkland Islands[link]

• Government House, Stanley is the residence of the Governor of the Falkland Islands. It was the scene of a battle with Argentine troops during the 1982 invasion.

Fiji[link]

Government House, Suva is located on Victoria Parade, Suva. It is the home of the President of Fiji and was built in 1928 to replace the original building - the residence of the colonial governor - which burnt to the ground after being struck by lightning in 1921.

India[link]

Rashtrapati Bhavan was originally Government House, New Delhi. It was built as a residence for the Viceroy of India. From 1947 until 1950, it was the residence of the Governor-General of India. Since 1950, the President of India has lived in this building.

Government House, Calcutta was the Viceroy's residence until 1911, when the Governor of Bengal moved in.

Isle of Man[link]

Government House, Governor's Road, Onchan is the official residence of the Lieutenant Governor Vice Admiral Sir Paul Haddacks, Her Majesty's representative on the Island.

Jersey[link]

The public are invited to Government House in Jersey for the annual Queen's Birthday reception

Government House, St Saviour is the official residence of the Lieutenant Governor of Jersey (currently Lieutenant-General Sir Andrew Ridgway). It is also the official residence of the Duke of Normandy (currently Queen Elizabeth II) as head of state when staying in Jersey.

Montserrat[link]

• Government House, Woodlands is the official residence of the Governor of Montserrat.

New Zealand[link]

Government House, Wellington is the primary residence of the Governor-General of New Zealand. There is a second house in Auckland, Government House, Auckland.

Official Link: Governor-General of New Zealand

Pakistan[link]

• Government House of Pakistan in Islamabad.
• Government House of Baluchistan in Quetta, Baluchistan.
• Government House of North-West Frontier Province in Peshawar, N.W.F.P.
• Government House of Punjab in Lahore, Punjab.
• Government House of Sindh in Karachi, Sindh.

Saint Kitts and Nevis[link]

• Government House, Basseterre, Saint Kitts is the official residence of the Governor-General of Saint Kitts and Nevis.

Saint Lucia[link]

• Government House, Morne Fortune is the official residence of the Governor-General of Saint Lucia.

South Africa[link]

Government Houses outside the Commonwealth of Nations[link]

Azerbaijan[link]

• Government House of Azerbaijan

Bahrain[link]

• Government House, Manama

Hong Kong[link]

• Government House, Hong Kong is located on Government Hill, Central, on Hong Kong Island. It was the official residence of most of the Governors of Hong Kong during British administration. After 1997, its status as the official residence of the head of the Hong Kong Government was abolished and has been used as a place for mere ceremonial uses. However, when Sir Donald Tsang became the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, he reverted it and designated the House as the official residence and office. He moved into the House at the end of January 2006.

Jerusalem[link]

• Government House in Jerusalem is the former headquarters of the government of the British Mandate of Palestine until 1948, and has since June, 1948 been the headquarters of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization.

Thailand[link]

• Government House of Thailand - Not an official residence, but the headquarters of the Office of the Prime Minister of Thailand.

Ukraine[link]

• Government House, Lviv, Ukraine - formerly the seat of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

United States of America[link]

• Some gubernatorial residences in the United States of America are also named Government House.
  • Government House (Maryland).
  • Government House (Pago Pago, American Samoa), listed on the NRHP in American Samoa

See also[link]

• Official residence
• Governor's Mansion (disambiguation)
• Rideau Hall, Canada
• Government Houses of the British Empire
• Commonwealth Realms
• Official Secretary to the Governor

The Right Honourable The Lord Patten of Barnes CH PC
Chairman of the BBC Trust
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 May 2011
Vice Chairman	Diane Coyle
Preceded by	Sir Michael Lyons
Chancellor of the University of Oxford
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 September 2003
Vice Chancellor	Colin Lucas John Hood Andrew D. Hamilton
Preceded by	The Lord Jenkins of Hillhead
Chancellor of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne
In office 5 October 1999 – 5 October 2009
Preceded by	The Viscount Ridley
Succeeded by	Sir Liam Donaldson
European Commissioner for External Relations
In office 10 June 1999 – 22 November 2004
President	Romano Prodi
Preceded by	Leon Brittan
Succeeded by	Benita Ferrero-Waldner
Governor of Hong Kong
In office 9 July 1992 – 30 June 1997
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Preceded by	The Lord Wilson of Tillyorn
Succeeded by	Tung Chee Hwa (as Chief Executive of Hong Kong) See Transfer of the sovereignty of Hong Kong
Chairman of the Conservative Party
In office 28 November 1990 – 10 April 1992
Leader	John Major
Preceded by	Kenneth Baker
Succeeded by	Norman Fowler
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
In office 28 November 1990 – 10 April 1992
Prime Minister	John Major
Preceded by	Kenneth Baker
Succeeded by	William Waldegrave
Secretary of State for the Environment
In office 24 July 1989 – 28 November 1990
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Nicholas Ridley
Succeeded by	Michael Heseltine
Minister of State for Overseas Development
In office 10 September 1986 – 24 July 1989
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Timothy Raison
Succeeded by	Lynda Chalker
Member of Parliament for Bath
In office 3 May 1979 – 9 April 1992
Preceded by	Edward Brown
Succeeded by	Don Foster
Personal details
Born	(1944-05-12) 12 May 1944 (age 68) Cleveleys, England, UK
Political party	Conservative
Spouse(s)	Lavender Patten
Alma mater	Balliol College, Oxford
Religion	Roman Catholicism[1]

Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC (born 12 May 1944) is a British Conservative politician and administrator. He is the current chairman of the BBC Trust, and was the last Governor of British Hong Kong.

Patten was Member of Parliament for Bath, eventually rising to a cabinet minister and party chairman. In the latter capacity, he orchestrated the Conservatives' unexpected fourth consecutive electoral victory in 1992, but lost his own seat in the House of Commons. He then accepted the post of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Hong Kong, and oversaw its handover to the People's Republic of China in July 1997. As Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Patten presided over a steady rise in the living standards of ordinary Hong Kongers while encouraging a significant expansion of Hong Kong's social welfare system.^[2]

From 2000 to 2004 he served as one of the United Kingdom's two members of the European Commission. After leaving that post, he returned to the UK and became the Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 2003, and he was made a Life Peer in 2005.

Patten is a Roman Catholic and oversaw Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United Kingdom in September 2010. On 7 April 2011 the Queen approved Patten's appointment as the Chairman of the BBC Trust, the governing body of the British Broadcasting Corporation.^[3]

Early life[link]

Chris Patten attended primary school at Our Lady of the Visitation, in Greenford, and later was educated at the independent St Benedict's School in Ealing, west London, and at Balliol College, Oxford. He was the first member of his family to attend university. In 1965, Patten worked for the campaign of New York Mayor John Lindsay, where he reported on the television performance of rival William F. Buckley, Jr..^[4] He worked for the Conservative Party from 1966, first as desk officer and then director (from 1974 to 1979) of the Conservative Research Department.

Member of Parliament[link]

In government[link]

Patten was a Member of Parliament for Bath from 1979 to 1992, serving as Minister for Overseas Development at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1986 to 1989.

In 1989 he was appointed to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for the Environment and became responsible for the unpopular Community Charge (or so-called "Poll Tax"). Though he robustly defended the policy at the time, in his 2006 book Not Quite the Diplomat (published in the United States as Cousins and Strangers: America, Britain and Europe in the New Century) he claims to have thought it was a mistake on Margaret Thatcher's part. He also introduced, and steered through Parliament, the major legislation that became the Environmental Protection Act 1990.

In 1990, John Major made Patten Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Chairman of the Conservative Party, with responsibility for organising the coming general election campaign. As party chairman, he was widely considered to be the main architect of the somewhat unexpected Conservative victory in the 1992 election. However, he lost his marginal seat of Bath to the Liberal Democrat candidate Don Foster in 1992. Patten's defeat was attributed to several factors: the Poll Tax that he implemented, which was especially unpopular in his constituency, and his duties as party chairman that prevented him from much local campaigning.

Governor of Hong Kong[link]

If Patten had been re-elected in 1992, sections of the media thought he would have been rewarded by appointment as Foreign Secretary, although in his autobiography John Major said that he would have made Patten Chancellor of the Exchequer. However, in the three weeks leading up to the election, many party insiders sensed that Patten would lose his seat, and Major was considering a patronage appointment.

In any event, in July 1992, he became the 28th and the last Governor of Hong Kong until its handover to the People's Republic of China on 30 June 1997. He was given an official Chinese name, Pang Ding-hong (Chinese: 彭定康), a name with an etymology based on the words "stability" and "health". Unlike most previous Hong Kong Governors, he was not a career diplomat from the UK Foreign Office but a politician. However, he was not the first former MP to become a Governor of Hong Kong: that was John Bowring (Governor of Hong Kong 1854–1859). Also, John Pope Hennessy (Governor of Hong Kong 1877–1882), was a Conservative MP before he entered Colonial Service.

Patten's tenure faced several different challenges, as many in Hong Kong were still reeling from the Tiananmen Square Massacre a few years earlier, while others were suspicious of whether or not the British would act in their best interest.^{[citation needed]} However the general opinion regarded him positively. He took steps to get in touch with the people of the colony, and was known for his penchant for taking public strolls around Hong Kong as well as in the media limelight. Hong Kong affectionately nicknamed him Fat Pang (Chinese: 肥彭), making him the only governor to have a widely recognised Chinese nickname.^[5]

Patten's most controversial actions are related to the election of the Hong Kong Legislative Council. Legco members returned in 1995 were originally to serve beyond the handover, thereby providing institutional continuity across the reversion of Hong Kong to the PRC. Beijing had expected that the use of functional constituencies with limited electorates would be used to elect this council, however Patten extended the definition of functional constituencies and thus virtually every Hong Kong subject was able to vote for the so-called indirectly elected members (see Politics of Hong Kong) of the Legislative Council.

His measure was strongly criticised by the pro-Beijing political parties of Hong Kong, which would suffer from the electoral changes^{[citation needed]}. Patten was also denounced by the PRC government as the 'whore of the East,' a 'serpent' and a 'wrongdoer who would be condemned for a thousand generations' (Chinese: 千古罪人).^[6] The legislative council which was elected under Patten's governorship was dissolved upon the handover of Hong Kong to the PRC and replaced by a Provisional Legislative Council (Chinese: 臨時立法會) which functioned until elections were held under the previous rules in 1998.

However, Patten's institutional reform gained unprecedented support in Hong Kong and the criticism from the PRC government raised his popularity to a level he had not previously enjoyed in the UK; he was widely seen as standing up for the colony's rights^{[citation needed]}. Notwithstanding the electoral controversy, even some of his critics admired his eloquence and praised his efforts to raise the level of debate in the colony. Ending up, the PRC did bow to pressure and after the handover, an increasing portion of seats in the Legco would be directly elected.

At 00:00 HKT 1 July 1997 (16:00 GMT, 30 June 1997), he sent the following telegram:

I have relinquished the administration of this government. God Save The Queen. Patten.

This marked the end of British rule in Hong Kong and after the handover ceremony he left the city, together with Prince Charles, on board the British royal yacht, HMY Britannia. Patten was noted to be in tears after his speech at the Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997.^[7]

Post governorship[link]

In 1998, Queen Elizabeth II appointed him a Companion of Honour. From 1998 to 1999, he chaired the Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland, better known as the Patten Commission, which had been established in 1998 as part of the Belfast Agreement. On 9 September 1999, the Commission produced its report, entitled A New Beginning: Policing in Northern Ireland but popularly known as the Patten Report, which contained 175 symbolic and practical recommendations.^[8] This report led to the renaming of the Royal Ulster Constabulary as the Police Service of Northern Ireland. He is the co-chair of International Crisis Group, overseeing many international operations. He is also a member of the Global Leadership Foundation, an organisation which works to promote good governance around the world.^[9] On 23 May 2005 he was appointed by Cadbury as a non-executive director.^[10] In 2011 Patten took seat in the advisory council of The Hague Institute for Global Justice.

European Commissioner[link]

In 1999, he was appointed as one of the United Kingdom's two members to the European Commission as Commissioner for External Relations where he was responsible for the Union's development and co-operation programmes, as well as liaison with Javier Solana, the High Representative of the Common Foreign and Security Policy. He held this position within the Prodi Commission from 23 January 2000 until 22 November 2004. Patten oversaw many crises in the area of European foreign policy, most notably the failure of the European Union to come up with a common unified policy before the Iraq war in 2003. Although nominated for the post of President in the next Commission in 2004, he was unable to gain support from France and Germany.

According to information from wikileaks Patten was in Moscow in April 2004, and had concluded EU-Russia ministerial consultations in Brussels. He considered that the EU had become overly dependent on Russian energy supplies, and should become more engaged with the countries of the Caucasus and Central Asia in order to diversify supplies. ^[11]

According to information from the US Embassy in Brussels (published by Wikileaks in November 2010): Patten said in April 2004 that Russian President Vladimir Putin has done a good job for Russia mainly due to high world energy prices, but he had serious doubts about the man’s character. Cautioning that “I’m not saying that genes are determinant,” Patten then reviewed the Putin family history – grandfather part of Lenin’s special protection team; father a communist party apparatchik, and Putin himself decided at a young age to pursue a career in the KGB. “He seems a completely reasonable man when discussing the Middle East or energy policy, but when the conversation shifts to Chechnya or Islamic extremism, Putin’s eyes turn to those of a killer.”

University roles and elevation to the Peerage[link]

Lord Patten of Barnes in ceremonial dress as the Chancellor of the University of Oxford

Patten was Chancellor of Newcastle University from 1999 to 2009, and was elected Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 2003.

In 2005 Patten was raised to the Peerage as Baron Patten of Barnes, of Barnes in the London Borough of Richmond.

In 2003 he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Bath. In September 2005 he was elected a Distinguished Honorary Fellow of Massey College in the University of Toronto (the only person so elected except for the Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh, the Duke of Edinburgh) as well as receiving an honorary Doctorate of Sacred Letters from the University of Trinity College, Toronto and an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Ulster.^[12] In March 2009, Patten received the title Doctor Honoris Causa by South East European University.

Chairman of the BBC Trust[link]

On the advice of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government led by Prime Minister David Cameron Lord Patten of Barnes was appointed by the Queen-in-Council as Chairman of the BBC Trust, and he took office on 1 May 2011, in the place of Sir Michael Lyons.

Charity[link]

In 2010 Lord Patten of Barnes was appointed President of Medical Aid for Palestinians.^[13]

Personal life[link]

Lord Patten of Barnes is married to Lavender, who is a barrister. They have three daughters, Kate, Laura (married to Elton Charles), and Alice Patten (actress); and two Norfolk terriers, Whisky and Soda.

On 29 September 2005, he published his memoirs, Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths About World Affairs. In October 2009, Lord Patten was Chief Guest at The Doon School, a boarding school in Dehradun, India, which is a member of the United Kingdom's Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference.^[14]

In the media[link]

Patten made as a politician as well as chancellor of the University of Oxford a remarkable comment on Myron Scholes and Robert Merton: ."... it is surely laughable when the highest awards are showered on those who promote the most gimcrack schemes to make themselves rich, at least for a while. The geniuses who invented the pyramid of derivatives at Long-Term Capital Management were awarded the Nobel Prize for their cleverness, not long before the whole edifice came crashing down with the financial community digging deep into its pockets to prevent too much collateral damage. To every excess, there comes a reaction." (pls. ref. to "Not Quite the DIPLOMAT – Home Truths about World Affairs", November 2005, p. 218)

Patten was interviewed about the rise of Thatcherism for the 2006 BBC TV documentary series Tory! Tory! Tory!.

Criticism of Sri Lanka[link]

In an Op-Ed contribution in The New York Times (12 January 2010), Patten made the comment,

".....After all, both General Fonseka and Mr. Rajapaksa executed the 30-year conflict to its bloody conclusion at the expense of huge numbers of Tamil civilian casualties. By early May, when the war was ending, the United Nations estimated that some 7,000 civilians had died and more than 10,000 had been wounded in 2009 as the army’s noose was being drawn tight around the remaining rebels and hundreds of thousands of non-combatants, who could not escape government shelling. The final two weeks likely saw thousands more civilians killed, at the hands of both the army and the rebels."^[15]

Books[link]

• Chris Patten (1983). The Tory Case. Longman Higher Education. ISBN 0-582-29612-9. 
• Chris Patten (1997). Letters to Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Information Services Department.
• Chris Patten (1998). East and West: The Last Governor of Hong Kong on Power Freedom and the Future. Pan Macmillan. ISBN [[Special:BookSources/0-333-74787-2|0-333-74787-2]]. 
• Chris Patten (2005). Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths About World Affairs. Allen Lane. ISBN 0-7139-9855-5. 
• Chris Patten (2006). Cousins and Strangers: America, Britain, and Europe in a New Century. Times Books. ISBN 0-8050-7788-X. 
• Chris Patten (2008). What Next? Surviving the Twenty-First Century. Allen Lane. ISBN 978-0-7139-9856-6. 
  • Reviewed by Jonathan Sumption in The Spectator

Honours[link]

• Sir William Robinson, Mark Aitchison Young and Patten are the only Governors not to be bestowed any honours in Hong Kong after their term was completed.

References[link]

Bibliography[link]

• Jonathan Dimbleby (1997). The Last Governor. ISBN 0-316-18583-3. 
• Chris Patten (2005). Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths About World Affairs. Allen Lane. ISBN 0-7139-9855-5. 

External links[link]

Wikisource has original works written by or about: Christopher Patten

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Chris Patten
• The Chris Patten Archive – This website aims to archive all articles, speeches and material by or about Chris Patten.
• Chris Patten's profile on BBC News website
• "History in Motion" Chris Patten's monthly op/ed commentary series for Project Syndicate.
• European Commissioner
• Patten Gets Peerage (BBC News Article)
• Still looking for trouble at (nearly) 60 – Jackie Ashley talks to Chris Patten
• His thought patterns (Biswadip Mitra talks to Chris Patten)
• Audio: Chris Patten in conversation on the BBC World Service discussion show The Forum

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Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi is a Nigerian politician, who became Governor of Rivers State in June 2007. He was previously Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly from 1999 until 2007.^[1] He ran successfully for reelection as River State governor on 26 April 2011.^[2]

Amaechi was born in Ubima, in Ikwere local government area of Rivers state, and is an alumnus of the University of Port Harcourt.^[1] His wife, Judith Amaechi is active in promoting improvements to the status of women and children, and is sponsor of the Empowerment Support Initiative, a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), that provides practical support and advice, particularly for the most disadvantaged.^[3]

In the April 2007 Rivers State elections, Celestine Omehia of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) was at first declared governor, but his election was later annulled and Chibuike Amaechi, also of the PDP, was declared governor.^[4] The decision of the Supreme Court to substitute Amaechi in place of Omehia was controversial.^[5]

Amaechi ran successfully for reelection on 26 April 2011. He polled 1,178,529 votes, while the runner-up Celestine Omehia of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) scored 112,528 votes.^[2]

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v t e Nigerian state governors 2007–2011 term Abia Theodore Orji Adamawa Murtala Nyako Akwa Ibom Godswill Akpabio Anambra Peter Obi Bauchi Isa Yuguda Bayelsa Timipre Sylva Benue Gabriel Suswam Borno Ali Modu Sheriff Cross River Liyel Imoke Delta Emmanuel Uduaghan Ebonyi Martin Elechi Edo Oserheimen Osunbor (annulled) Adams Aliyu Oshiomle Ekiti Olusegun Oni (annulled) Kayode Fayemi Enugu Sullivan Chime Gombe Mohammed Danjuma Goje Imo Ikedi Ohakim Jigawa Sule Lamido Kaduna Namadi Sambo (appointed VP) Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa Kano Ibrahim Shekarau Katsina Ibrahim Shema Kebbi Usman Saidu Nasamu Dakingari Kogi Ibrahim Idris Kwara Bukola Saraki Lagos Babatunde Fashola Nasarawa Aliyu Doma Niger Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu Ogun Gbenga Daniel Ondo Olusegun Agagu (annulled) Olusegun Mimiko Osun Olagunsoye Oyinlola (annulled) Rauf Aregbesola Oyo Christopher Alao-Akala Plateau Jonah David Jang Rivers Rotimi Amaechi Sokoto Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko Taraba Danbaba Suntai Yobe Mamman Bello Ali (died) Ibrahim Geidam Zamfara Mahmud Shinkafi See also Nigerian state governors 2003-2007 term, Nigerian state governors 2011–2015 term

v t e Nigerian state governors 2011–2015 term Abia Theodore Orji Adamawa Murtala Nyako Akwa Ibom Godswill Akpabio Anambra Peter Obi Bauchi Isa Yuguda Bayelsa Timipre Sylva (sacked) Nestor Binabo (Acting) Henry Dickson Benue Gabriel Suswam Borno Kashim Shettima Cross River Liyel Imoke Delta Emmanuel Uduaghan Ebonyi Martin Elechi Edo Adams Oshiomhole Ekiti Kayode Fayemi Enugu Sullivan Chime Gombe Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo Imo Rochas Okorocha Jigawa Sule Lamido Kaduna Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa Kano Rabiu Kwankwaso Katsina Ibrahim Shema Kebbi Usman Saidu Nasamu Dakingari (annulled and elected again) Aminu Musa Habib Jega (Acting) Kogi Ibrahim Idris Kwara Abdulfatah Ahmed Lagos Babatunde Fashola Nasarawa Umaru Tanko Al-Makura Niger Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu Ogun Ibikunle Amosun Ondo Olusegun Mimiko Osun Rauf Aregbesola Oyo Isiaka Abiola Ajimobi Plateau Jonah Jang Rivers Chibuike Amaechi Sokoto Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko Taraba Danbaba Suntai Yobe Ibrahim Geidam Zamfara Abdul'aziz Abubakar Yari See also Nigerian state governors 2007-2011 term

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