14 Facts About Lawal Kaita

Lawal Kaita was a Nigerian politician elected on the National Party of Nigeria platform as governor of Kaduna State, Nigeria, holding office between October and December 1983, when the Nigerian Second Republic ended with the coup that brought General Muhammadu Buhari to power.

Lawal Kaita continued to be an influential politician in the Nigerian Fourth Republic and was one of the founders of the Action Congress of Nigeria party in September 2006.

Lawal Kaita is a blood relative of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua and a member of the royal family of Nagogo, traditional rulers of the Emirate of Katsina.

Lawal Kaita attended Barewa College, Zaria and later studied at the London School of Economics.

Lawal Kaita served as Secretary to the State Water Board, Commissioner for Economic Planning and Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Works of Kaduna State.

Lawal Kaita was appointed a Member of the Constituent Assembly of Nigeria and became Special Assistant to President Shehu Shagari.

Lawal Kaita helped the NPN to impeach Governor Musa in June 1981.

In 1982, after the death of the Emir, Lawal Kaita contested the emirship of Katsina.

Lawal Kaita was elected Governor of Kaduna State in the 1983 election, holding office for a few months until the military coup in December of that year.

In 1995, after General Shehu Musa Yar'Adua was jailed by the Sani Abacha government, Lawal Kaita was appointed leader of Yar'Adua's Peoples Democratic Movement which comprised politicians such as Atiku Abubakar, Abdullahi Aliyu Sumaila, Magaji Abdullahi and Rabiu Kwankwaso.

Lawal Kaita was a founding member of the People's Democratic Party PDP in 1998.

Lawal Kaita left the PDP to join others in forming the Action Congress party in September 2006; Vice President Atiku Abubakar, representing the Action Congress, launched his unsuccessful bid for the presidency in 2007.

In March 2010, there were rumors that Lawal Kaita might be returning to the PDP following a meeting with the Katsina State Governor Ibrahim Shema and other PDP leaders.

On 19 August 2010, Lawal Kaita was received back to the PDP by Governor Shema, in an event attended by 50,000 decampees from the Action Congress in Ingawa, Kusada and Kankia local governments.