Mahamane Jean Padonou

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Mahaman (e) Jean Philippe Padonou (born August 23, 1954 in Maradi ; † 2020 ) was a Nigerien entrepreneur and politician .

Life

Mahamane Jean Padonou went to elementary and middle school in Niger. He then attended the Institute for Transport and Transit of the SCAC Group in Abidjan , which he left with a diploma for senior managers in logistics and transit. From 1976 he worked for various transport companies in Niger. In 1984 he started his own transport company UNITRAF . Padonou worked as an advisor to Mamadou Tandja from 1988 , who was then a member of the ruling Supreme Military Council . In the 1990s he founded other companies in Benin and the Ivory Coast . Mamadou Tandja was elected President of Niger in 1999 for the MNSD-Nassara party. Padonou then received the rank of special adviser, but gave up this post in 2004 after a falling out with Tandja.

He became a member of the RSD-Gaskiya party , which he served as vice-chairman from 2006 to 2011. As for the MNSD-Nassara, he also played an important role for the RSD-Gaskiya in mobilizing voters in his hometown of Maradi. During the Sixth Republic (2009-2010) he was second vice-president of the National Assembly . Amadou Cheiffou , the party leader of the RSD-Gaskiya, gave a recommendation for Mahamadou Issoufou of the PNDS-Tarayya for the second round of the presidential elections in Niger 2011 . Mahamane Jean Padonou opposed this decision and was expelled from the RSD Gaskiya. In 2014 he founded a new party with himself as chairman, the Assembly for Democracy and Progress (CDP-Marhaba Bikhum). He entered the running for the CDP Marhaba Bikhum in the 2016 presidential election and was fourteenth of fifteen candidates with 0.35% of the vote.

Padonou was married and had six children. He died in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic .

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Portrait: M. Mahaman Jean Philippe Padonou, candidat du CDP Marhaba Bikhum. (No longer available online.) In: Niger Diaspora. February 5, 2016, archived from the original on February 7, 2016 ; Retrieved February 8, 2016 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nigerdiaspora.net
  2. El Kaougé Mahamane Lawaly: Presidential 2016: Maradi aligne 5 chevaux sur les 15 partants. In: Niger Inter. January 29, 2016, accessed February 8, 2016 (French).
  3. ^ Suspension de Jean Padonou du RSD: les va-t-en-guerre déclenchent la crise. (No longer available online.) In: Niger Diaspora. March 8, 2011, archived from the original on February 8, 2016 ; Retrieved February 8, 2016 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nigerdiaspora.net
  4. Results globaux provisoires. (No longer available online.) Commission Électorale Nationale Indépendante, February 2016, archived from the original on February 23, 2016 ; accessed on March 13, 2016 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ceni-niger.org
  5. Niger: le chef de l'Etat assiste à la levée du corps du ministre de l'Emploi sahelien.com of May 4, 2020 (last paragraph, French)