Prof. Tahir Mamman: The Labour Party Employee Tinubu Nominated for Minister By Ozumi Abdul and Obamodi Faith
POLITICS DIGEST- It is not surprising that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu settled for Prof. Tahir Mamman, the Vice Chancellor of Baze University, Abuja, as his ministerial nominee from Adamawa State. The renowned law scholar is eminently qualified to become a member of the Federal Executive Council, FEC.
But what is bewildering is the fact that Prof. Mamman, at the moment, is an employee of Sen. Datti Baba-Ahmed, the Vice Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, in the 2023 general elections. As the VC of Baze University, owned by a Labour Party chieftain, many would have least expected President Tinubu to consider Prof. Mamman for a ministerial job, regardless of his intellectual pedigree.
That however, is the apparent reality now. Prof. Mamman, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), was born in 1954 at Michika in Adamawa State. The university don holds a LL.B degree from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, in 1983, and was called to the bar in 1984.
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Prof. Tahir Mamman obtained his Master’s degree from the University of Warwick, England in 1987, and his PhD in 1990, from the same University of Warwick, England.
Mamman, the incumbent Baze University VC, is also a member of the Governing Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
The acclaimed Professor of Law was once the Director General of the Nigerian Law School, from 2005 to 2013. He is also a member of the Body of Benchers.
In 2010, he became a board member of the International Association of Law Schools based in Washington DC, and was conferred with the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), in September 2015. In recognition of his meritorious service to his fatherland, the Federal Government bestowed on him the national honour of Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON).
Prof. Mamman, who holds the chieftaincy titles of Dan Ruwata Adamawa Emirate and Dokajin Mubi of Adamawa, surely ticks all the boxes of President Tinubu’s new Attorney General and Minister of Justice.
But the Nigerian education system, at this material time, needs a celebrated technocrat with a midas touch to salvage its dwindling fortunes. And in Prof. Mamman, President Tinubu may just have found an illustrious university administrator who can execute the job perfectly.
