Tuesday, 1 July 2014
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A renowned
northern politician and former Minister of Transportation during the Second
Republic, Umaru Dikko, is dead, his son, Bello Dikko, has said.
According to
Premium Times, family members said late Dikko, 78, died early Tuesday in a
London hospital.
A family
member said he suffered three strokes in a row and had been sick for quite some
time.
Dikko was a
trusted adviser to President Shehu Shagari. He was also the Nigerian minister
for Transportation from 1979-1983.
He started
playing a role in the nation’s governance in 1967, when he was appointed as a
commissioner in the then North Central State of Nigeria (now Kaduna State).
He was also
secretary of a committee set up by General Hassan Katsina to unite the
Northerners after a coup in 1966. In 1979, he was made Shagari’s campaign
manager for the successful presidential campaign of the National Party of
Nigeria.
During the
nation’s Second Republic, he played prominent roles as transport minister and
head of the presidential task force on rice.
A
military coup on December 31, 1983 overthrew the government of Shagari. Dikko
fled into exile in London as well as a few other ministers and party officials
of the National Party of Nigeria.
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