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Danladi Abdullahi Sankara

Person of interest · Politician

Danladi Abdullahi Sankara is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Danladi Abdullahi Sankara				[sources]
Alias	Senator Danladi Abdullahi Sankara				[sources]
Birth date	1954-11-25				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Nigeria				[sources]
Citizenship	Nigeria				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Danladi				[sources]
Last name	Sankara				[sources]
Middle name	Abdullahi				[sources]
Title	Dr				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q5219980				[sources]
Position	Peoples Democratic Party Senatorial Candidate For Jigawa North West · member of the Senate of Nigeria				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-01	Last processed	2025-12-01	First seen	2023-04-20

Descriptions

Nigerian politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the Senate of Nigeria	2019	-
member of the Senate of Nigeria	2019-06-11

Data sources

Nigeria Joining the Dots PEPs and PEP Relatives4,391

Data on Politically Exposed Persons in Nigeria and their relatives from the Joining the Dots project.

Nigeria · Directorio Legislativo/EITI · non-official source

Nigerian Politically Exposed Persons data by Chipper40,806

National and sub-national Nigerian Politically Exposed Persons collected by Chipper

Nigeria · Chipper · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories198,553

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,783

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions516,192

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata386,579

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: ng-chip-pep-ng-0011351 · ng-dots-danladi-abdullahi-sankara-1954-11-25-district-jigawa

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