Muhammad Sani Abdullahi Dattijo Biography, Age, Education, Career and Net Worth

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Muhammad Sani Abdullahi Dattijo is a economist and politician. He was the Commissioner for Budget and National Planning in the first term of Governor Nasir El-Rufai from 2015 to 2019. Muhammad Sani Abdullahi Dattijo was born on 26 October 1979 in Kaduna state.

Muhammad Sani Abdullahi Dattijo Profile

Name	Muhammad Sani Abdullahi Dattijo
Real Name	Muhammad Sani Abdullahi Dattijo
Birthday	26 October 1979
Age	44 years (2023)
Profession	Economist Politician
Political Party	All Progressive Congress (APC)
State of Origin	Kaduna State
Nationality	Nigeria
Tribe	Fulani
Religion	Muslim
Net worth	Under Review
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Educational Background

Muhammad Dattijo holds a Master’s degree in Development Economics and Policy from the University of Manchester, and a second Master’s degree in International Affairs and Diplomacy from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria. He has also studied Public Finance at the London School of Economics, Sustainable Development with Columbia University in New York, and Advanced Project Management at Oxford University in the United Kingdom. Additionally, he was a participant in Georgetown University’s Leadership Seminar in 2017.

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Muhammad Sani Abdullahi Dattijo is an accomplished scholar, having been awarded a UK Chevening Scholarship. He is a member of the University of Oxford Business Alumni Network, a Fellow of the Archbishop Tutu Leadership Institute, and most recently, a fellow of the Aspen Institute Africa Leadership program (ALIWA). Currently, Muhammad is pursuing his doctoral research at the Henley Business School in Reading University, United Kingdom.

Career

Muhammad Sani Abdullahi Dattijo started his career as a Policy Adviser. He was a Policy Adviser in the Executive Office of United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon in New York and a member of the Secretary-General’s core team that designed the Sustainable Development Goals( SDGs).

He served as an Economist and Deputy National Program Manager in Nigeria’s Presidency where he supported the design and coordination of development interventions across 36 States focusing on accelerating the country’s progress on the MDGs.

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Muhammad Sani Abdullahi Dattijo was subsequently appointed Economic Adviser of the Nigeria Governor’s Forum, a political and policy think tank for the country’s 36 elected Governors.

In 2018 Muhammad Dattijo was appointed alongside Tonye Cole as a World Bank Expert Advisory Council on Citizen Engagement.

Muhammad Sani Abdullahi Dattijo was a member of the APC Kaduna transition committee in 2015 and was later appointed Commissioner for Budget and National Planning in the first term of Governor Nasir El-Rufai.

In 2019, he was appointed the Chief of Staff to Governor Nasir El-Rufai. A position he held till 2021.

In 2022, Muhammad Sani Abdullahi Dattijo picked nomination form to run for Kaduna state governor under the All Progressive Congress (APC) but he however stepped Donne for Uba Sani.

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He subsequently picked nomination form to represent Kaduna Central in the senate. He won the primaries but lost in general elections to Lawal Adamu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Muhammad Dattijo was appointed a deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) by President Tinubu in September 2023.