Bashir Tofa

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Bashir Othma Tofa is a Nigerian politician. A Hausa Muslim who hails from Kano State, Tofa was the National Republican Convention (NRC) candidate in the annulled Nigeria's June 12, 1993 presidential election, which was organised by the Military government of General Ibrahim Babangida.

Before his sojourn into politics, Alhaji Tofa was a businessman, oil trader and an industrialist. His running mate in the election was Dr. Sylvester Ugoh of Igbo extraction and a former governor of the now defunct central bank of Biafra. Both were members of the defunct National Party of Nigeria.

Tofa was apparently defeated in the presidential election by his rival, a Yoruba man from southwest Nigeria, Chief Moshood Abiola, but the official results were never released by Babangida's government, which was forced to step down in August 1993 after several protests by Nigerians calling for the results of the election.

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