Dantata For Burial Today

As the remains of Alhaji Abdulkadir Sanusi Dantata is being awaited today for burial in Kano, Kano State, northwest Nigeria, eminent citizens of the city and friends have described him as religious and a complete gentleman.

The business mogul and philanthropist died in a German hospital yesterday night.

According to a source, Abdulkadir had battled a health challenge affecting his leg. His health history also showed that he was diabetic.

Kano State Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, who spoke to P.M.NEWS this morning through his media aide, Halilu Baba Dantiye, described the late Abdulkadir as a good ambassador of Kano.

The immediate past governor of the sate, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, who also spoke through his media aide, Sule Yau Sule, said: “The nation has lost a complete patriot. The state and the nation have lost a patriotic citizen. He has taken the name of Kano to the international community through his company. He can best be remembered as a simple, patriotic, religious and philathropic person.”

Alhaji Ali Muktari Daura, a businessman and a honorary consul of Benin Republic to Nigeria said the business community has lost a grand patron.

In his tribute, Alhaji Junaid Mohammed, a Second Republic lawmaker and a classmate to the late Abdulkadir, said: “Abdulkadir was a unique person. We were together at Kuka Senior Primary School from 1961 – 1963 even though he was a little older than me. He started his education in Libya and continued in Sudan.

The late Abdulkadir was born on 1 September, 1945, at Sarari Dantata Quarters in Kano into a family that had a history of trading and commerce.

He attended Arabic schools in Libya, Sudan and Kumasi in Ghana.

He returned to Nigeria in 1960 and completed his senior primary education at Kuka, Feggie, Kano.

He later got teachers’ grade two certificate in 1958. Thereafter, the late Abdulkadir Dantata committed his entire life to business. He was into cotton, groundnut and agricultural products.

—Maduabuchi Nmeribeh/Kano