Ahmadu Bello
Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello ( born June 12, 1909 in Rabbah, Nigeria, † January 15, 1966 ) was a descendant of Usman Dan Fodio Sardauna (king) of Sokoto and a Nigerian politician.
Sir Ahmadu Bello, first worked as a teacher and later became head of the Sokoto Native Authority, the colonial self-government Sokoto, under British suzerainty. In 1949 he founded together with Tafawa Balewa the Northern People's Congress ( NPC), a conservative party, which he led from 1951 alone. At the same time he was the leader of the Qadiriyyah Order.
1954 Bello was appointed Prime Minister of Northern Nigeria. From this position, he founded the Jama ʿ at al - Nasr Islam in Kaduna, an organization that was directed primarily against the Christian missionary. After his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1956, he developed close relationships with politicians in other Islamic countries and worked towards the establishment of a Commonwealth of Islamic States. In 1962 he along with his rival, the Tidschani - Sufi Ibrahim Baye Niass, a founding member of the Muslim World League in Mecca. In Nigeria, even he undertook together with the NPC 1964-1965 large-scale conversion campaigns to convert as many people ( animists, but also Christians ) to Islam.
In January 1966, Bello was assassinated in a military coup.