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Born in Lagos in 1964, Hamzat came to public life as an engineer, not a career politician. He earned a B.Sc. in agricultural engineering and an M.Sc. from the University of Ibadan, then a PhD in system process engineering from Cranfield University in England.

He spent the decade that followed in New York, working as an adjunct professor at Columbia University, a vice-president in core technology at Merrill Lynch and an engineer at Morgan Stanley. He returned home as Chief Information Officer of Oando, and came to government a systems thinker: someone trained to understand how complex things work, and how to make them work at scale.

His first job in government was to drag it into the modern age. As Lagos Commissioner for Science & Technology from 2005, Hamzat drove modern technology into the state's ministries, changing the face of data and record-keeping in Lagos and, in the same stroke, ending the trend of state ghost workers.

It's the kind of work that wins no headlines but makes government honest: fewer fake names on the payroll, cleaner records, and real accountability for public money.

In 2011, Hamzat was appointed Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure for Lagos State, the office behind one of the state's most ambitious building eras. It delivered the Lekki–Ikoyi Link Bridge, Nigeria's first cable-stayed bridge, opened in 2013.

What his supporters remember most isn't the ribbon-cutting. It's that he treated big projects as a chance to build people too, pressing for local hands to be trained and skilled on the work that was reshaping the city.

Anyone can cut a ribbon. Keeping a city running is the harder job. Those who worked with Hamzat point to his push for a culture of maintenance in Lagos: the quiet discipline of caring for roads, drainage and public assets long after the cameras have gone.

It's a simple idea with a big payoff: a Lagos that holds on to the value of everything it builds, instead of watching it crumble.

From 2015 to 2018, Hamzat served at the federal level as a Special Adviser on Works to the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, carrying the same delivery mindset to projects across the country before returning home to Lagos.

The real measure of a leader is how they carry themselves when things are hardest. In the difficult days of 2020, as a generation of young Lagosians made their voices heard, Hamzat, by then Deputy Governor, chose engagement over distance: showing up, listening and treating young people as partners in the city's future rather than a problem to be managed.

Today, Kadri Obafemi Hamzat serves as Deputy Governor of Lagos State. The vision on this site isn't a leap of faith. It's a continuation of a record. We back him because the man who helped bring Lagos this far is the one we trust to carry it forward.