Ohere Sadiku Abubakar FNSE, (born July 13, 1966) is a Nigerian politician and senator currently serving for the Kogi Central Senatorial District.
His working career spanned about 20 years, beginning as a field engineer and gradually rising to the management level in the Federal Ministry of Mines and Steel Development.
[9] A political appointment in January 2016 led to a pause in Ohere's civil service career as he accepted the role to serve under the New Direction Government of governor Yahaya Bello from January 2016 to August 2019 as a Special Adviser,[10] overseeing the affairs of the Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs.
In January 2020,[11] at the inception of the second governorship of Yahaya Bello, he was appointed again into his cabinet to serve as the Honorable Commissioner for Works and Housing,[12] a position he voluntarily resigned from on the 16th day of April 2022, to participate as a candidate in the senatorial elections for Kogi Central Senatorial District in the Federal Legislature.
[13][14] Ohere was initially declared the winner of the 2023 Kogi Central Senatorial Election on February 25, 2023 by the Independent National Electoral Commission,[15] but he spent less than seven months in the Nigerian Senate, as this electoral victory was overturned on October 31, 2023 by the Court of Appeal in Abuja, and his opponent Natasha Akpoti of the People's Democratic Party was declared as the rightful winner of the elections.