Daddy Gaoh

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Daddy Gaoh (* 1906 in Matankari , † March 25, 1973 in Niamey ; also Dady Gaoh ) was a Nigerien politician .

Life

Daddy Gaoh was descended from the rulers of Aréoua . He attended secondary school in Ouagadougou until 1927 and then joined the French colonial administration as an assistant . He first worked in Gaya , from 1932 in Tessaoua , from 1947 in Birni-N'Konni and from 1949 in Niamey , the capital of Niger. Gaoh joined the Nigerien Progressive Party (PPN-RDA), of which he became second vice chairman in 1949. In June 1950 he was promoted to party chairman. In this office he was succeeded in 1956 by Boubou Hama . Daddy Gaoh moved to Tessaoua because of work that year, where he became chairman of the local party section of the PPN-RDA in 1957. Then he moved to Dogondoutchi , now as a senior official . In 1959 he was first deputy district commander of Dogondoutchi, then deputy district commander of Tessaoua, and finally district commander of Tessaoua. He retired as a civil servant in 1962.

In Niger, which has been independent since 1960, the PPN-RDA formed the unity party under President Hamani Diori . The Sawaba , the main competing party in the pre-independence years, was banned. In 1964, Daddy Gaoh's son Hamissou was executed for plotting to overthrow the Dioris government as a Sawaba activist. Daddy Gaoh assumed another high office for the PPN-RDA when he was installed as mayor of Niamey from 1966 to 1970 . In addition, until his death in 1973 he was Grand Chancellor of the Nigerien National Order and a member of the constitutional chamber of the Supreme Court. A street in Niamey, avenue Daddy Gaoh , was named after him.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Claude Fluchard: Le PPN-RDA et la décolonisation du Niger, 1946-1960 . L'Harmattan, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-7384-3100-3 , pp. 62 .
  2. ^ André Salifou: Biographie politique de Hamani Diori. Premier President de la République du Niger . Karthala, Paris 2004, ISBN 978-2-8111-0202-9 , pp. 305-306 .
  3. ^ François Martin: Le Niger du Président Diori 1960–1974 . L'Harmattan, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-7384-0952-0 , pp. 347 .
personal data
SURNAME Gaoh, daddy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gaoh, dady
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Matankari
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1973
Place of death Niamey