Abdulfatai Buhari
Senator, Oyo North · APC
Abdulfatai Omotayo Buhari (born 12 November 1965, Ogbomoso) has served three consecutive Senate terms for Oyo North since 2015, making him one of only a handful of senators to achieve that in the 10th Senate. His legislative record documents chairmanships of successive key committees: Vice-Chairman of Industry in the 8th Assembly, Chairman of Land and Marine Transport in the 9th Assembly, and Chairman of Aviation in the 10th Assembly. As Aviation Committee Chairman from August 2023, he sponsored motions on flight delays and cancellations (December 2024), the soaring domestic airfare crisis (December 2025), and the Air Peace runway overrun safety investigation (2025), the last of which produced a Senate committee report exonerating Air Peace but ordering systemic safety reforms. His most documentable constituency win in the current term is the signing into law by President Tinubu in July 2025 of the Federal University of Agriculture and Technology (FUNATO), Okeho, in the Oke-Ogun zone, a project whose passage Buhari publicly claimed to have driven through sustained lobbying. Personal-funds constituency interventions include the commissioning of 33 boreholes and 7 ICT centres (March 2021), serial women-entrepreneurship capacity-building programmes each covering the 13 LGAs and each disbursing N100,000 per beneficiary, and a large empowerment distribution at Soun Stadium, Ogbomoso in May 2026 reaching over 2,500 constituents. He also personally funded construction of the Ibapon Central Mosque, Ogbomoso, commissioned by Vice-President Shettima in November 2024. No EFCC, ICPC, or court charges against him are documented in public records. The 2023 election tribunal petition filed by Accord Party's Shina Peller was dismissed for failure to establish over-voting. Buhari has declared he will not seek a fourth Senate term, having filed for the 2027 Oyo State governorship. The overall grade reflects a multi-term committee career with documented oversight activity and constituency spend, tempered by a thin public bill-sponsorship paper trail and no confirmed third-reading passage of a Buhari-authored bill in the 10th Assembly, resulting in a mixed record across the four axes.
No court or anti-graft case on public record in this archive as of compilation. Absence of a record is not a clearance.
This grade rates performance in office, not any person’s guilt. Criminal matters appear above only as their court status. How we grade.
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- 1Shina Peller gets 5 votes as Abdulfatai Buhari wins Oyo North senatorial primaryTheCable · 2022-01-01
- 2#NigeriaDecides2023: UPDATED: Fatai Buhari Wins Oyo North Senatorial District ElectionIndependent Newspaper Nigeria · 2023-02-27
- 3Fatai Buhari wins Oyo North Senatorial district pollDaily Post Nigeria · 2023-02-27
- 4Leadership of the Standing Committees of the 10th Senate (2023-2027)Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC) · 2023-08-08
- 5[UPDATED] FULL LIST: Wamakko, Lawan, Yari named chairmen as Senate unveils 74 committeesPunch · 2023-08-08
- 6Senate summons Aviation Minister, NCAA, airlines over poor flight operationsDaily Post Nigeria · 2024-12-04
- 7Senate Moves to Halt 'Exploitative' Airfare Surge, Summons Keyamo, AirlinesThisDay Live · 2025-12-10
- 9Senate Probes Alarming Aviation Safety BreachesEconomic Confidential
- 10Runway Overrun: Senate Clears Air Peace Of WrongdoingLeadership
- 11'Most barbaric act' - Senate demands swift rescue of Oyo kidnapped victimsDaily Post Nigeria · 2026-06-03
- 12Senate condemns abduction of Oyo school childrenBlueprint Newspapers · 2026-06-03
- 13President Tinubu Signs Bill Establishing Federal University of Agriculture and Technology, Okeho Into LawNational Truth · 2025-07-01
- 14Senator Buhari: How I Lobbied President Tinubu, Prominent Okeogun Indigenes To Get Federal University Of Agriculture & Technology, OkehoOyoinsight · 2025-07-01
- 15President Tinubu Approves Federal University for Okeho, as Kajola LG Vice Chairman, Robert Adeniji Lauds Gbadegesin, Buhari, Oshine, OthersAcross Nigeria News · 2025-07-01
- 16Fatai Buhari To Commission 33 Boreholes, 7 ICT Centres Across Oyo NorthOyoinsight · 2021-03-15
- 17Shettima, Jibrin, Makinde, AbdulRahman, others storm Ogbomoso to commission Ibapon Central Mosque built by Sen. BuhariPanNigerian News · 2024-11-08
- 18The Nigerian Mosque: Ibapon Central Mosque, OgbomosoMuslim Voice Nigeria · 2024-11-09
- 19Senator AbdulFatai Buhari on X: eight constituents receive appointment letters into Federal Polytechnic AyedeX (formerly Twitter) — @BuhariOyoNorth
- 20Oyo North Senator Empowers 120 Women With Millions Of Naira, Urges Support For Tinubu In 2027Oyoinsight · 2026-04-01
- 21Fifth Empowerment In 2025: Senator Buhari Trains, Splashes N10m On 100 Women In Oyo NorthOyoinsight
- 22SEPTEMBER: Oyo North Senator, Fatai Buhari Completes Empowerment Of 1,000 Constituents Across 4 Federal ConstituenciesOyoinsight · 2024-09-25
- 23Oyo Lawmaker Empowers Over 2,500 Constituents with ItemsPunch · 2026-05-01
- 24Buhari tasks government on deplorable state of Iseyin-Oyo, Igbeji-Ilorin roadsBlueprint Newspapers
- 25Fatai Buhari Writes SOS Letter To FG Over Oyo-Iseyin, Igbeti-Ilorin RoadsInsideOyo
- 26Abdulfatai Buhari — Project source folder: corruption cases1000 Reasons internal research file
- 27Oyo Senators, Soji Akanbi, Abdulfatai Buhari visit Ajimobi, pledge loyalty to APCDaily Post Nigeria · 2018-07-25
- 292023 Nigerian Senate elections in Oyo StateGrokipedia
- 30Sen AbdulFatai Buhari Declares 2027 Oyo Governorship AmbitionNigeria Eye · 2025-12-07
- 312027 Guber: Lawmaker Buhari joins Oyo governorship raceDaily Post Nigeria · 2025-12-07