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About Umaru Dikko
- Umaru Abdulrahman Dikko (31 December 1936 – 1 July 2014) was a Nigerian politician.
- He was an adviser to President Shehu Shagari and served as minister for transportation from 1979–1983. Dikko was born in Wamba.
- He started playing a role in the nation's governance in 1967, when he was appointed as a commissioner in the then North Central State of Nigeria (now Kaduna State).
- He was also secretary of a committee set up by General Hassan Katsina to unite the Northerners after a coup in 1966.
- In 1979, he was made Shagari's campaign manager for the successful presidential campaign of the National Party of Nigeria.
- During the nation's Second Republic, he played prominent roles as transport minister and head of the presidential task force on rice. A military coup on 31 December 1983, overthrew the government of Shagari.
- Dikko fled into exile in London as well as a few other ministers and party officials of the National Party of Nigeria.
- The new military regime accused him of large-scale corruption while in office, in particular of embezzling millions of dollars from the nation's oil revenues. On 5 July 1984, he played the central role in the Dikko Affair; he was found drugged in a crate at Stansted Airport that was being claimed as diplomatic baggage, an apparent victim of a government sanctioned kidnapping.
- The crate's destination was Lagos.
- He died in London in 2014, aged 77.
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