Bukola Saraki (born
Olubukola Abubakar Saraki, 19 December 1962) is a
Nigerian politician who has been President of the
Senate of Nigeria since 2015. Previously he was
Governor of
Kwara State from 2003 to 2011. He was first elected to the Senate in April 2011, representing the Kwara Central senatorial district, and he was re-elected in the March 2015 elections.