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Dangiwa Umar
Colonel (retired) Abubakar Dangiwa Umar (born 1949) was governor of Kaduna state in Nigeria from August 1985 to June 1988 during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida.
After retiring from the army in 1993, he became a social critic and the founder of Movement for Unity and Progress, a political party.
Birth and education.
Umar was born on 21 September 1949 in Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State.
His father was a school teacher and administrator with the traditional title of Wazirin Gwandu
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