Garba Nadama (1938 – 4 May 2020) was a Nigerian politician who was the second civilian governor of

Sokoto State Sokoto State (Hausa: Jihar Sokoto Fula: Leydi Sokoto 𞤤𞤫𞤴𞤣𞤭 𞤧𞤮𞥅𞤳𞤮𞥅𞤼𞤮𞥅) is one of the 36 states of Nigeria, located in the extreme northwest of the country on the national border with the Niger, Republic o ...

, Nigeria, in the short-lived

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, holding office from January 1982 to November 1983. He succeeded

Shehu Kangiwa Alhaji Muhammadu Shehu Kangiwa was the first elected civilian governor of Sokoto State, Nigeria in the short-lived Nigerian Second Republic, holding office from October 1979 to November 1981. He represented the National Party of Nigeria (NPN). He ...

, who had died in a polo accident.

Biography

Garba Nadama obtained a Ph.D. in history from

Ahmadu Bello University Ahmadu Bello University Zaria is a federal government research university in Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria. ABU was founded on 4 October 1962, as the pioneer university in Northern Nigeria. It was founded and named after the Sardauna of Sokoto, Al ...

in 1977. Nadama was a fierce rival of Alhaji

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for the

National Party of Nigeria The National Party of Nigeria (NPN) was the dominant political party in Nigeria during the Second Republic (1979–1983). History Formation The party's beginning could be traced to private and sometimes secret meetings among key Northern Nigerian ...

(NPN) nomination for Sokoto deputy governor in 1979. He was described as a quiet, urbane and principled conservative politician. In July 1982 Sokoto State received a N96 million loan from the

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. In December 1982, the Federal government provided N400,000 to Sokoto State to use in reducing gully erosion. Nadama described the amount as meager and insufficient to handle the problem. On 8 March 1993 he commissioned a new transmitter for the

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. The

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(now in

Zamfara State Zamfara (Hausa: Jihar Zamfara Fula: Leydi Zamfara 𞤤𞤫𞤴𞤣𞤭 𞤶𞤢𞤥𞤬𞤢𞤪𞤢) is a state in northwestern Nigeria. The capital of Zamfara state is Gusau and its current Governor is Bello Matawalle. Until 1996, the area was ...

) was established during his tenure. Nadama left office after the 1983 military coup in which Major General

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took power. Nadama became a member of the National Political Reform Council, and later became a prominent member of

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(PDP). Nadama became a director of Societe Generale Bank Nigeria (SGBN). In April 2008, he was deputy National Secretary of a committee to review recommendations for resolving internal differences in the PDP. Nadama died on 4 May 2020 from COVID-19 and is survived by four wives and eighteen children.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nadama, Garba 1938 births 2020 deaths Nigerian Muslims Governors of Sokoto State National Party of Nigeria politicians Members of the Peoples Democratic Party (Nigeria) Ahmadu Bello University alumni Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria