Education
Inuwa Wada attended Shuhuci Elementary School and in 1938, he graduated from the Kano Middle School.
parliamentarian Minister of Works
Inuwa Wada attended Shuhuci Elementary School and in 1938, he graduated from the Kano Middle School.
He was a veteran parliamentarian towards the end of the Nigerian first republic and was given the Defense portfolio in 1965 after the death of Muhammadu Ribadu. Inuwa Wada was known by many as a quiet figure in contrast to the hectic demands of his ministerial portfolio in the Works department which was going through a period of increased focus on major developmental projects as part of a six-year plan during the early 1960s. (1)
After putting nine years in teaching, he left the profession for the offices of the Kano Native Authority and worked there as a clerk, Chief Scribe and Information Officer.
In the 1950s, he served on the board of the Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology, the Nigerian Coal Corporation and the Nigerian Groundnut Marketing Board.
In the 1964, election, he had to contend with a Young NEPU candidate who was a School teacher by name Musa Said Abubakar Magami and future governor of Kano, Abubakar Rimi who contested as an independent candidate but all of them pulled out of the race before the elections were contested see Chapter 10 page 204 of African Revolutionary The and Times of Nigeria"s Aminu Kano by Alan Feinstein 156 299 4. He ran a fairly successful transport business after the 1966 coup that abolished the first republic.
He also remained an influential conservative figure in the Northern region after the coup. Wada secured a loan from the Nigerian Industrial Development Bank to start his first manufacturing venture, a match making company.
He later owned interest in at least five other business ventures including a transport company.
His breakthrough in the transport sector occurred when he bought 50 lorries for a small deposit, other ventures included the Nigerian Spanish Engineering Company, Kanol Paints, Arewa Industries, Standard Industrial Industries and Nigerian Enamelware Company. 1959 Sumaila parliamentary election Inuwa Wada Non-Player Character - 26,149 Mohammed Achimolo Garba NEPU - 2,231 Sule Baba AG - 456.
Inuwa Wada began in politics in 1945 and was a founding member of the Northern Peoples Congress. While in the Non-Player Character, he was the party"s secretary and national organizer.
He was first elected in 1951 as a member of the Northern House of Assembly, he was subsequently nominated to the Federal House of Representatives and was a member and later minister from 1951-1966.