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Wahab Dosunmu, (14 May 1939 – 9 June 2013) was a
Nigerian Nigerians or the Nigerian people are citizens of Nigeria or people with ancestry from Nigeria. The name Nigeria was taken from the Niger River running through the country. This name was allegedly coined in the late 19th century by British jour ...
politician and was a former minister for housing in Nigeria. He was an elected member to the Nigerian senate from 1999 to 2003. Dosunmu contested the Lagos governorship primaries in 1999 and lost to Senator Bola
Tinubu Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu (born 29 March 1952) is a Nigerian accountant and politician who served as the Governor of Lagos State from 1999 to 2007 and Senator for Lagos West during the brief Third Republic. In June 2022, he was chosen as the A ...
. He won the seat the for the Lagos Central Senatorial District on the platform of Alliance for Democracy, AD. Later, he defected with some other AD federal lawmakers to PDP. Dosunmu remained a vibrant member of the Senate where he was Chairman, Senate Committee on Science and Technology till 2003. He later defected to the
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from his prior party, the Alliance for Democracy. During the 1990s, he was prominent in the struggle to enthrone the presumed winner of the June 12 presidential election of 1993. He was High Commissioner to Malaysia between 2004 and 2007. He died on 9 June 2013 , in United States of America at 74.


Political Activist

Dr Wahab Dosunmu, was a political activist and a chieftain of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) The late politician was one of those who fought for the actualization of the June 12, 1993 presidential mandate of late Chief M.K.O Abiola through NADECO.


References

* "Tinubu, Others Go For Credibility Test", P.M. News, December 18, 1998 Living people Alliance for Democracy (Nigeria) politicians Peoples Democratic Party members of the Senate (Nigeria) Year of birth missing (living people) {{Nigeria-politician-stub