Hamisu Musa is a Nigerian politician and administrator who was a minister of Postal Service from October 1983 to December 1983. He was also a senator representing Kano South West during Nigeria's second republic. While in the senate, he served as the chairman of the Committee on Social Development.
He played a key role in the election of
Rabiu Kwankwaso
200px, Nigeria.html" ;"title="Kano State in Nigeria">Kano State in Nigeria
Mohammed Rabi'u Musa Kwankwaso, (born 21 October 1956) is a Nigerian politician who served as governor of Kano state from 1999 to 2003 and from 2011 to 2015. After he ...
in the 1998 P.D.P. primary elections together with Musa Gwadabe and
Abdullahi Aliyu Sumaila
Abdullahi Aliyu Sumaila (23 March 1946 – 11 January 2003) was a Nigerian politician and administrator. One of the first administrators to inherit the post first republican administrative structure instituted by the military, he served the Local ...
who were leaders of the Peoples Democratic Movement (P.D.M.) from which platform
Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso
200px, Nigeria.html" ;"title="Kano State in Nigeria">Kano State in Nigeria
Mohammed Rabi'u Musa Kwankwaso, (born 21 October 1956) is a Nigerian politician who served as governor of Kano state from 1999 to 2003 and from 2011 to 2015. After he ...
contested the primaries defeating
Abdullahi Umar Ganduje
Abdullahi Umar Ganduje (born 25 December 1949) is a Nigerian politician who served as the governor of Kano State from 2015 to 2023. He previously served as Rabiu Kwankwaso's deputy governor twice, from 1999 to 2003 and from 2011 to 2015. He ...
. Musa is a former chairman of Bank of the North and Nigeria Express Contracting Services. He was born in Kafir Agur, Kano in 1938 and was educated at New York Institute of Management. In 1979, he defeated Muhammadu Maude of the NPN to win the senate seat of Kano's south west under the platform of the
People's Redemption Party
The People's Redemption Party is a social democratic political party in Nigeria. The Second Republic reincarnation of the Northern Elements Progressive Union and the Fourth Republican reincarnation of a similar namesake, the party was cre ...
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Nigerian politicians