{"id":6956,"date":"2016-11-28T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T09:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=6956"},"modified":"2017-04-11T14:34:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T13:34:22","slug":"bafarawa-alhaji-attahiru-dalhatu","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/bafarawa-alhaji-attahiru-dalhatu\/","title":{"rendered":"BAFARAWA, Alhaji Attahiru Dalhatu"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>businessman, politician; b: 1954; ht: Sokoto; m: three wives; ed: primary and secondary education in Sokoto; cr: Councillor, Supervisory Councillor, Deputy ch. Isa Council, Sokoto State, 1976. He also contested for a seat in the House of Representatives on the platform of the Great Nigeria Peoples Party but lost; Independent petroleum marketer where he made great fortunes; Went into large scale farming, setting up the Bafarawa Farms Limited, Bafarawa Flour Mills Ltd; ch. defunct National Republic Convention, Sokoto State, 1993; All Nigerian Peoples Party, 2002; mm: National Constitutional Conference, 1994; founding mem: national v-ch. defunct United Nigeria Congress Party, North western zone; ch. Cement Company of Northern Nigeria and several other companies; He was elected gov. Sokoto State on January 9, 1999, on the platform of the All Peoples Party; award: Best North-West Governor of the Year, by City People, 8th Edition. off: Office of the Governor, Usman Farouk Secretariat. P.M.B. 2101, Sokoto, Sokoto State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-6956","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6956"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=6956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}