David Obadiah Lot

David Obadiah Vrengkat Lot MBE ya kasance shugaban addinin Najeriya na Ikilisiyar Kristi kuma ɗan siyasa ne daga yankin Middle Belt Na Najeriya . Ya kasance shugaban farko na ƙungiyar siyasa ta tsakiya a cikin shekarun 1940. Wannan motsi da sauran abubuwa suna son ƙirƙirar wata jiha ta daban ga mazaunan yankin.

 Rayuwa ta farko 
An haife shi a cikin bangaskiyar Kirista kuma ya halarci makarantar firamare ta mishan a gundumar sa ta Panyam . Daga can, masu wa'azi a ƙasashen waje a cikin gundumar sun horar da shi kuma sun ba shi jagora. A cikin 1926, ta hanyar Miss Webster, mai ba da shawara ya tafi Makarantar St Bartholomew, Zaria, makarantar kwana ta mishan da Walter Miller ya kafa. Bayan kammala karatunsa, ya juya zuwa aikin koyarwa a matsayin sana'a ta farko.

 Ayyuka 
Ya fara aikin koyarwa a wani karamin makarantar firamare a Panyam kuma ya yi aure daga baya. A shekara ta 1939, buƙatar fasto daga gundumar Panyam ta tashi. An zaɓi David kuma an tura shi makarantar horar da fastoci a Gindiri kuma ba da daɗewa ba ya zama minista.

David Lot ya shiga fagen siyasa a cikin shekarun 1940. Yana da sha'awar hanyoyin inganta zamantakewa da siyasa na Kiristoci a yankin tsakiya da kuma kare su daga babbar ƙungiyar Hausa-Fulani ta Musulunci. A shekara ta 1946, ya kasance daga cikin ƙungiyar 'yan Najeriya waɗanda suka yi tafiya zuwa London don halartar taron tsarin mulki. A shekara ta 1950, ya kasance memba mai kafa kuma shugaban ƙungiyar Middle Zone League (MZL) kuma bayan shekara guda ya yi takara kuma ya lashe kujerar Majalisar Wakilai. Koyaya, a shekara ta 1955, ƙungiyar tana neman hanyoyin sake kirkirar kanta da ƙarfafawa tare da wasu ƙungiyoyi masu tunani daga yankin. Ƙungiyar daga baya ta haɗu da wata jam'iyya ta tsakiya don kafa United Middle Belt Congress Billy Joseph Dudley. Parties  Parties and Politics in Northern Nigeria, Routledge, 1968. p 95.  Koyaya, wani ɓangare na sabuwar jam'iyyar da aka kafa ya yi da yarjejeniyar Lot don haɗa karfi tare da Jam'iyyar Northern Peoples Party. Joseph Tarka ne ya jagoranci 'yan adawa da wannan matakin, wani matashi dan siyasa ne daga ƙasar Tiv. Daga baya ya bar siyasa don mayar da hankali kan Ma'aikatar Kristi.

 Manazarta 

Rukuni:Matattun 1995
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1907