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DOSSIER · SENATORUPDATED JUN 2026

Sunday Steven Karimi

Senator, Kogi West (Senatorial) · APC

Assessment Profile06

Senator Sunday Steven Karimi (APC, Kogi West) brings to the 10th Senate a biography that spans two terms in the House of Representatives (2011–2019) and a party trajectory from ACN through PDP to APC. His senatorial record since June 2023 is among the more documented in the 10th Assembly for constituency delivery: he personally funded and commissioned a Forward Operating Base in Egbe (October 2024), overseen the award of a N1.24 billion water project covering 135 borehole and water-scheme sites across all seven Kogi West LGAs, secured N9 billion in road funding for the Iluhagba–Mopa–Isanlu–Egbe corridor, and facilitated a N300 million CBT centre at Titcombe College. His legislative output includes over ten bills spanning CBN Act reform, agricultural credit, fertilizer quality control, and state police, together with more than thirty motions. He chairs the Senate Committee on Senate Services. The overall record is offset by unresolved internal APC tensions — ward chairmen in multiple Kogi West LGAs passed votes of no confidence in him in 2025 and 2026, and a 2026 APC party primary was contested amid allegations of result forgery — but no criminal proceedings or court findings have been recorded against him. On the evidence available, his constituency delivery and legislative engagement clear a B standard, though the absence of independently verified bill passage records and the reliance on sympathetic local outlets moderate confidence to medium.

HIGHLOWBPromisesBLegislativeBConstituencyCIntegrity
Legal Record07

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.

Sources17
  1. 1Karimi, senator-elect, gets Certificate of Return, promises to make Kogi West proudBusinessday NG · 2023-03-01
  2. 2Iluhagba–Isanlu-Egbe Road: Contractor Returns to Site as Senator Karimi Secures N9bn FundingKogi Reports
  3. 3Kogi Senator spends N1.4bn on 140 boreholesPunch Newspapers
  4. 4Kogi West: Senator Karimi Facilitates Additional 4 CBT Centres in Lokoja, Iyara, Odo-Ere, MopaKogi Reports
  5. 5Know Your Lawmakers Series: Here are the senators representing Kogi state in 10th AssemblyThe Radar NG
  6. 6Senate set to bar CBN governor, deputies from partisan politicsParliament Reports · 2023-11-01
  7. 7How Senator Karimi championed agric reform — AnalystTribune Online
  8. 8Senate Demands State Governments Help Fight School KidnappingsNALTF
  9. 9Senator Sunday Karimi builds military operating base in KogiVanguard News · 2025-07-01
  10. 10Senator Karimi Builds Military Base To Tackle Insecurity In Kogi WestLeadership Newspaper · 2024-10-14
  11. 11Senator Karimi clarifies N43bn FEC approval for Ilorin–Omuaran–Egbe road projectTribune Online
  12. 12Group lauds Senator Karimi On CBT Centre, bursary award to studentsTribune Online
  13. 13Sunday Steve Karimi's tortuous journey to the Red ChamberThe Guardian Nigeria
  14. 14Senator Sunday Karimi Wins Kogi West APC Senatorial Primary with 51,665 VotesKogi Reports · 2026-05-18
  15. 15APC Ward Chairmen Pass Vote Of No Confidence On Senator KarimiLeadership Newspaper
  16. 16APC Ward Chairmen Pass Vote Of No Confidence On Kogi West Senator Sunday KarimiIndependent Newspaper Nigeria
  17. 17Kogi West APC Stakeholders Allege Forgery in Senatorial Primary, Demand Probe, Reaffirmation of Karimi's WinKogi Reports · 2026-05-01