Aminu Waziri Tambuwal was born January 10, 1966 in Tambuwal Village in Sokoto State. He is a Nigerian lawyer and politician who has served as Senator for Sokoto South since 2023.

He served as the governor of Sokoto State from 2015 to 2023. He is a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, and served as the 12th Speaker of the House of Representatives of Nigeria from 2011 to 2015.

Tambuwal represented the Tambuwal/Kebbe Federal Constituency of Sokoto State as an honorable in the House of Representatives from 2003 to 2015.

He attended Tambuwal Primary School, Tambuwal, Sokoto State, where he obtained his First School Leaving Certificate in 1979; and Government Teachers’ College, Dogon-Daji, where he obtained the Teachers Grade 11 Certificate in 1984. He then proceeded to Usman Dan Fodio University, Sokoto, where he studied Law, graduating with an LLB (Hons) degree in 1991. He completed his one-year compulsory legal studies at the Nigerian Law School, Lagos, obtained his BL and was called to the Bar in 1992.

Besides studying for his law degree, he attended several courses abroad, among which are the following: Telecoms Regulatory Master Class–Bath UK, 2004; Lawmaking for the Communications Sectors –BMIT, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2004; Regulating a Competitive Industry-UK, Brussels, 2005; Tulane University – International Legislative Drafting, 2005; Stanford Graduate School of Business – Influence and Negotiation, 2008 and KSG Harvard – Infrastructure in Market Economy, 200.

In October 2018, Tambuwal declared that he was running for president and said he was forced to seek the highest position to "revive the dying economy".

Tambuwal was named the chairman, Senate committee on housing of the 10th senate on 8 August 2023.

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