Saidu Muhammed Dansadau was born on 20 June 1953 and is a Nigerian politician, he was elected Senator for the Zamfara Central constituency of Zamfara State, Nigeria at the start of the Nigerian Fourth Republic, running on the All People's Party platform.
13 Facts About Saidu Dansadau
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Saidu Dansadau was reelected in April 2003 on the All Nigeria People's Party platform for another four years.
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Saidu Dansadau began medium, and later large-scale farming in 1977, and continued to stay involved in farming throughout his political career.
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Saidu Dansadau was the Sokoto State Secretary of the National Party of Nigeria from 1981 to 1983 during the Second Nigerian Republic.
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In March 2005 Saidu Dansadau called for the Senate President, Chief Adolphus Wabara, to resign since he had been implicated in the N55 million bribery scandal.
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Saidu Dansadau was a strong opponent of allowing President Olusegun Obasanjo to run for a third term.
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Saidu Dansadau commended Vice-President Atiku Abubakar for speaking out against the proposal, and defended him from impeachment moves.
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Saidu Dansadau left the Senate in May 2007, and in October 2008 announced that he was resigning from the ANPP and from partisan politics in general.
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Saidu Dansadau, who had previously been a large-scale farmer, became the promoter of the Maslaha Seed Firm in Gusau, Zamfara State.
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In 2010 Saidu Dansadau was appointed Chairman of a 12-person Committee on Repositioning Land Administration in the Federal Capital Territory.
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Saidu Dansadau said that three former FCT Ministers, Nasir el-Rufai, Aliyu Modibbo Umar and Adamu Aliero had allocated 18,445 plots of land between 1 January 2007 and April, 2010.
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Saidu Dansadau said multiple allocations, forgery and falsification of records were huge problems, as was illegal revocation of plots, blaming corrupt officials and chaotic procedures.
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Saidu Dansadau said the Land Use Allocation Committee was ineffective during the period under review.