Mahmud Dantata

Mahmud Dantata
Member of Parliament
In office
30 December 1964 – January 1966
Preceded byAminu Kano
Succeeded byposition abolished
ConstituencyKano East
Personal details
Born1922
Sarari, Kano
Died1983
Political partyNorthern People's Congress (NPC)
Other political
affiliations
Northern Elements Progressive Union (NEPU)
OccupationBusinessman, politician

Mahmud Dantata (1922–1983), often known as Mamuda Dantata,[1] was a Nigerian businessman and politician who represented Kano East under the platform of NPC in the Nigerian House of Representatives from 1965 to 1966.[2] Dantata was originally sympathetic to the cause of the opposition party NEPU, led by Aminu Kano but after an incarceration, he aligned with the dominant party to defeat Aminu Kano for a seat in the House of Representatives in 1964.

  1. ^ "SHARI'A: MAMUDA BABU BELI". Gaskiya Ta Fi Kwabo (in Hausa). 23 August 1957. p. 1.
  2. ^ Light, Ivan H. (1972). Ethnic enterprise in America : business and welfare among Chinese, Japanese and Blacks (3. pr. ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 312. ISBN 9780520024854.