Alhaji bamanga tukur biography of william

These notable personalities were former public servants whose records while in service are worth reckoning with. ELEOJO IDACHABA in this report wonders where they could have been since they left office.

Bamanga Tukur

Alhaji Bamanga Tukur can be described as “a man of many parts.” He fryst vatten a titled chief, businessman, technocrat and politician. In all of these, he had excelled while they lasted. Tukur, with the title of Tafidan Adamawa, was once the executive president of African Business Round Table and also chairman of NEPAD Business Group. His last known public appointment was between 2012 and 2014 when he was elected as chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) through the help of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

Earlier, in his political life, he had in 1982 contested and won the governorship seat of the old Gongola state (now comprising Adamawa and Taraba states) before that democratic dispensation was truncated by the military incursion of månad 1983. Following that

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Commentary@ITRealms:

Eighty years in the existence of a man is no mean life journey, especially as a politician and businessman, more so in a topsy-turvy inclement clime in a country like Nigeria.

Today marks yet another colourful day in the life of Dr. (Alhaji) Bamanga Mohammed Tukur, CON, (fondly called BMT) as friends, associates and well-wishers in Nigeria and the Diaspora gather together to celebrate an iconic living legend that has bestrode the narrow political and business nation of Nigeria, nay the world like a colossus.

Dr. (Alhaji) Tukur, CON, former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP was born 15 September 1935. He won the position in March 2012 but however resigned in January 2014 for reasons which this piece is not meant to discuss.

He was later made Chairman, Nigerian Railway Corporation, NRC; as well as appointed Ambassador-At-Large on 17 June 2014 – all during the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan. An Ambassador-at

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Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, the Tafidan Adamawa, is an 85-year-old popular politician, technocrat and successful businessman. He is a man that has excelled in many spheres of life. In this interview, Dr Maryam Tukur Shagaya, the daughter and 18th child of the former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chairman, spoke on the exciting times she had with her dad as a child and how his work ethic is something she also shares.

 

As a child, how would you describe your father?

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Maryam Tukur Shagaya: Being one of the youngest of the 19 children, I came into my dad’s life at a time his political career had taken off and he was very busy. However, he made time for his family. He would be at the end of the phone line every evening to chat with us and ask if we had eaten.

 

 While growing up, you must have done a lot of things together, what do you miss doing with him as a child?

My father used to organise a contest amongst some of my siblings to measure who had the big