successor birth_place office width birth_date term_start image article_title term_end name
ahmed makarfi zaria , kaduna state , nigeria senator for kaduna north 109px 24 november 1940 29 may 1999 dalhatu tafida.png dalhatu tafida
 29 may 2007 dalhatu sarki tafida
dalhatu tafida

dr. dalhatu sarki tafida -lrb- born 24 november 1940 -rrb- was elected senator for the kaduna north constituency of kaduna state , nigeria at the start of the nigerian fourth republic , running on the people 's democratic party -lrb- pdp -rrb- platform .
he took office on 29 may 1999 .
he was reelected for a further four-year term in 2003 .
