Agbu Kefas is the Governor of Taraba State. A retired army officer and former chairman of the board of the maritime agency NIMASA, he won the governorship for the PDP in 2023 and moved to the APC in January 2026.12

Career

Kefas was born in Wukari on 12 November 1970. He graduated from the Nigerian Defence Academy in 1994 and served in the army for 21 years, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. He chaired the NIMASA board from 2013 to 2015, served on the Presidential Committee on the North-East Initiative, and was state chairman of the PDP in 2020.1

Governor (2023–present)

Kefas won the March 2023 election by about 100,000 votes over the NNPP’s Muhammad Sani Yahaya and took office on 29 May 2023.1 On 31 January 2026 he left the PDP for the APC.12

Personal life

He is married and has four children. His late elder brother, Air Commodore Ibrahim Kefas, was a well-known Taraba politician.1

References

  1. Agbu Kefas. Wikipedia, accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩ ↩ ↩ ↩

  2. PDP depletes, APC governors rise to 31 as Lawal joins fold. BusinessDay, March 2026. ↩ ↩