Mahmud Tukur
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Mahmud Tukur is a Nigerian politician and former minister for Commerce and Industry during the administration of General Buhari. He was the first Vice Chancellor of Bayero University, Kano and also a former director of Cadbury Nigeria. Tukur's enviable position and competence displayed as the Vice Chancellor of Bayero University increased his public profile in Northern Nigeria. He became friends with contemporaries such as Mamman Daura, Adamu Ciroma, Hamza Rafindadi Zayyad to form a small clique of policy advocates in Northern Nigeria. In 1985, he was involved in a mild controversy over the use of counter-trading in oil transactions, which he supported, the Nigerian energy minister at the time broke ranks with the military regime and publicly criticized the use of counter trading signaling the energy minister's death knell as minister.
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- Shehu Othman, Classes, Crises and Coup: The Demise of Shagari's Regime, African Affairs > Vol. 83, No. 333 (Oct., 1984
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