Danjuma Laah | |
Honorific Prefix: | Chief (Dr.) |
Office: | Senator for Kaduna South |
Term Start: | 9 June 2015 |
Term End: | 11 June 2023 |
Predecessor: | Esther Nenadi Usman |
Successor: | Sunday Marshall Katung |
Birth Date: | 16 February 1960 |
Party: | People's Democratic Party |
Nationality: | Nigerian |
Danjuma Tella Laah (born 16 February 1960) is a Nigerian politician and senator who represented Kaduna South Senatorial District[1] of Kaduna state from 2015 to 2023.[2] [3]
Laah had been the senator representing Kaduna south senatorial district since 2015. On 23 February 2019, he was re-elected into office having garnered 268,287 defeating Yusuf Barnabas Bala of the All Progressives Congress who had 133,923 votes.[4]
As a senator, he spoke of ways to make peace in southern Kaduna by ensuring that there is no religious barrier between Christians and Muslims.[5]
Laah sponsored bills at the Nigerian Senate for the establishment of a federal University within the area of his jurisdiction, which is to be known as Federal University of Science and Technology, Manchok.[6] This he sponsored alongside the bill for the establishment of Police College, Tum.
Laah is a recipient of the DINMA 2009 Award for Accounting when he was serving as the deputy director of Finance and Accounts Division at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Pension Board, Abuja.[7]