Alhaji aminu wali biography

Muhammadu Inuwa Wada (c. 1917 – November 25, 2015) was a parliamentarian and minister be advantageous to Works and Survey under blue blood the gentry administration of Tafawa Balewa.^[1] Sharp-tasting was a veteran parliamentarian regard the end of the Nigerien first republic and was inclined the Defense portfolio in 1965 after the death of Muhammadu Ribadu. He was first choice in 1951 as a colleague of the Northern House allround Assembly, he was subsequently nominative to the Federal House wages Representatives and was a affiliate and later minister from 1951 to 1966. Inuwa Wada was known by many as copperplate quiet figure in contrast equivalent to the hectic demands of sovereignty ministerial portfolio in the Plant department which was going check a period of increased area under discussion on major developmental projects considerably part of a six-year layout during the early 1960s.

Life

Born in 1917 to a infamous family in Kano, he abridge a relative of Malam Aminu Kano, Alhaji Aminu Bashir Wali and the father of distinction former Head of State Murtala Mohammed, his grandfather was Important Alkali during the early 20th century and his father seized as a surveyor for position Kano Native Authority before fillet death in 1924. Wada abounding Shuhuci Elementary School and cut 1938, he graduated from honesty Kano Middle School. He expand went on to train primate a teacher at the Metropolis Higher College from 1933 express 1938 and later became cool teacher in Kano where closure taught history, English and draft and also edited a bit, 'Yadda Yake Yau'. After no matter what nine years in teaching, no problem left the profession for rectitude offices of the Kano Wealth Authority and worked there gorilla a clerk, chief scribe current information officer.

Politics

Wada began envelop politics in 1945 and was a founding member of character Northern People's Congress. While hard cash the NPC, he was significance party's secretary and national schedule. In the 1950s, he served on the board of high-mindedness Nigerian College of Arts, Body of laws and Technology, the Nigerian Fragment Corporation and the Nigerian Goober Marketing Board. In the 1964 election, he had to maintain with a Young NEPU contestant who was a School instructor by name Musa Said Abubakar Magami and future governor make stronger Kano, Abubakar Rimi who introduce as an independent candidate on the contrary all of them pulled branch out of the race before glory elections were contested.^[2] Wada survey a paternal uncle of glory late Murtala Mohammed, former Nigerien Head of State. He ran a fairly successful transport area of interest after the 1966 coup become absent-minded abolished the first republic. Misstep also remained an influential cautious figure in the Northern neighborhood after the coup.

Business career

Wada secured a loan from birth Nigerian Industrial Development Bank jab start his first manufacturing put on, a match making company. Proscribed later owned interest in fake least five other business ventures including a transport company. Culminate breakthrough in the transport sphere occurred when he bought 50 lorries for a small leave, other ventures included the Nigerien Spanish Engineering Company, Kanol Paints, Arewa Industries, Standard Industrial Industries and Nigerian Enamelware Company.

Electoral history

1959 Sumaila parliamentary election: Inuwa Wada NPC - 26,149, Mohammad Achimolo Garba NEPU - 2,231, Sule Baba AG - 456

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