Background
David Lot was born in 1907 to the family of Daniel Lot, a Christian evangelist.
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David Obadiah Vrengkat Lot
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He was raised in the Christian faith and attended a missionary primary school in his district of Panyam.
Career
He was an early leader of the middle belt political movement in the 1940s. The movement among other things desired the creation of a separate state for inhabitants of the region. From there, he was trained and mentored by missionaries in the district.
In 1926, courtesy of Mission Webster, his mentor he went to Street Bartholomew, Zaria, a missionary boarding school founded by Walter Miller.
After completing his studies, he turned to the teaching profession as an early vocation. In 1939, a need arose for a pastor from the Panyam district.
David was nominated and sent to a training school for pastors in Gindiri and soon thereafter became an ordained minister. David Lot joined the political scene in the 1940s.
In 1946, he was among a team of Nigerians who traveled to London to attend a constitutional conference.
However, by 1955, the league was looking for ways to re-invent itself and consolidate with other like minded organizations from the region. The opposition to the move was led by Joseph Tarka a much younger politician from Tiv land. He later left politics to concentrate on the Ministry of Christ.
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Politics
The League later merged with another middle belt party to form the United Middle Belt Congress However, an agreement by Lot to join forces with the Northern Peoples Party was opposed by a section of the newly formed party.
