Tinubu appoints AbdulRazaq head of Renewed Hope Ward Development Programme Committee

By Henry Umoru

ABUJA — President Bola Tinubu has appointed the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) and Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, arsenic Chairman of the National Steering Committee for the Renewed Hope Ward Development Programme (RHWDP).

The RHWDP is simply a flagship inaugural aimed astatine accelerating economical activities, enhancing livelihoods, and strengthening societal extortion astatine the grassroots level.

According to a connection from the NGF Secretariat, the Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Senator Abubakar Atiku Bagudu, volition service arsenic Vice Chairman.

The connection further listed different members appointed by the President to correspond the six geopolitical zones arsenic follows: North-East: Governor Mai Mala Buni (Yobe), South-South: Governor Douye Diri (Bayelsa), South-West: Governor Dapo Abiodun (Ogun), South-East: Governor Peter Mbah (Enugu), North-West: Governor Dikko Umar Radda (Katsina) and North-Central: Governor Hyacinth Alia (Benue)

In presumption of the committee’s urgent mandate, its inaugural gathering was held connected Wednesday, October 29, 2025, astatine the Nigeria Governors’ Forum Secretariat, Abuja.

The meeting, chaired by Governor AbdulRazaq, marked a large measurement toward operationalising President Tinubu’s ward-based improvement strategy crossed Nigeria’s 8,809 wards.