Senator Gbemi Saraki, Kwara Senatorial District, Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

Abuja Nigeria

Government / Military

Gbemisola Ruqayyah Saraki is the sitting senator representing Kwara Central Senatorial District of Kwara State in North West Nigeria. She attended the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom and earned a Bachelor's Degree in Economics. She did her mandatory national service at the Nigeria Bank for Commerce and Industry, Lagos. She worked for the Societe Generale Bank (Nigeria) as Head of Money Markets and later as Head of Domiciliary Accounts. From 1994 to 1999 she was Executive Director of Ashmount Insurance Brokers, Lagos. Her father, Abubakar Olusola Saraki was the former Senate leader during the Nigerian Second Republic (1979–1983). Her brother, Abubakar Bukola Saraki is the