Alhaji Bamanga Muhammad Tukur, CON, ɗan siyasa kuma ɗan kasuwa ne ɗan Najeriya, wanda ya taɓa riƙe muƙamin Gwamnan tsohuwar Jihar Gongola, sannan ya zama Ministan Masana’antu a gwamnatin mulkin soja ta Janar Sani Abacha a shekarun 1990.
An haife shi ne a ranar 15 ga Satumba 1935, kuma ya rasu a ranar 12 ga Satumba 2026, yana da shekaru 90. Ya kasance ɗan asalin Jihar Adamawa, kuma ya shahara a harkokin kasuwanci da siyasa a Najeriya da ma ƙasashen Afirka.
Bamanga ya fara samun karɓuwa a fagen ƙasa tun daga tsakiyar shekarun 1970, lokacin da yake shugabancin Hukumar Kula da Tashoshin Jiragen Ruwa ta Najeriya, NPA.
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A lokacin, Najeriya na fuskantar cunkoso a tashoshin jiragen ruwa sakamakon shigo da siminti da yawa ƙarƙashin wani shiri da aka fara a ƙarshen mulkin Janar Yakubu Gowon. A lokacin da yake jagorantar hukumar, gwamnati ta gina wasu ƙarin tashoshin jiragen ruwa domin rage matsalolin da ake fuskanta wajen jigilar kayayyaki, tare da samar da isassun wurare don buƙatun shigo da fitar da kaya na ƙasar.
Daga shekarar 1975 zuwa 1982, Bamanga Bamanga ne babban jami’in gudanarwa na Hukumar Kula da Tashoshin Jiragen Ruwa ta Najeriya. A shekarar 1982 ya bar muƙaminsa, sannan ya shiga takarar gwamnan tsohuwar Jihar Gongola.
A shekarar 1983 aka zaɓe shi a matsayin gwamnan farar hula na Jihar Gongola, wadda a lokacin ta ƙunshi yankunan da yanzu suke Jihar Adamawa da Taraba. Sai dai bai daɗe a kan kujerar ba, domin ya yi kusan watanni uku ne kafin juyin mulkin soja ya kawo ƙarshen gwamnatin dimokuraɗiyyar.
Bayan barin gidan gwamnatin Gongola, Tukur ya mayar da hankali kan harkokin kasuwanci. Ya kafa tare da zama shugaban kamfanin BHI Holdings, wanda aka fi sani da DADDO Group of Companies.
A shekarar 1992, ya nemi takarar shugabancin Najeriya a ƙarƙashin jam’iyyar National Republican Convention, NRC, amma bai yi nasara ba. A lokacin zaben fidda gwani, Tukur da wasu daga cikin masu adawa da Adamu Ciroma sun nemi a soke zaɓen fidda gwani na farko, bisa zargin nuna son kai daga shugabancin jam’iyyar.
Daga shekarar 1993 zuwa 1995, Tukur ya kasance mamba a Majalisar Zartarwa ta Tarayya, inda ya riƙe muƙamin Ministan Masana’antu a gwamnatin Janar Sani Abacha.
A harkokin siyasa, Bamanga Tukur ya kasance ɗaya daga cikin fitattun shugabannin Jam’iyyar PDP. Daga watan Maris na 2012 zuwa Janairu 2014, ya kasance Shugaban Ƙasa na Jam’iyyar PDP, kafin Adamu Mu’azu ya maye gurbinsa. Ya kuma kasance mamba a kwamitin amintattu na jam’iyyar.
Baya ga siyasa da kasuwanci, Tukur ya taka rawa a harkokin kasuwanci na Afirka. Ya taɓa shugabantar NEPAD Business Group, sannan ya kasance Shugaban Zartarwa na African Business Roundtable, ABR, inda daga baya ya zama mai riƙe da matsayin mai kula da ƙungiyar na tsawon rayuwa.
Ya kuma riƙe wasu muƙamai a hukumomi da ƙungiyoyin kasuwanci na cikin gida da na ƙasa da ƙasa, ciki har da UNIDO International Business Advisory Council, Ghana Investors Advisory Council da OECD Africa Investment Advisory Board.
A watan Maris na shekarar 2002, an zaɓe shi a matsayin shugaban NEPAD Business Group. Haka kuma ya kasance shugaban kwamitin ba da shawara na Africa Investor Ltd da kuma shugaban African Investment Advisory.
A fannin ilimi, Bamanga Tukur ya samu digirin MSc daga Jami’ar Pittsburgh ta Amurka. Jami’ar Jihar Benue da ke Makurdi ta kuma ba shi digirin girmamawa na Doctorate of Law, yayin da Nigerian Institute of Transport Technology, NITT, da ke Zaria ta karrama shi da Fellowship.
Bamanga Tukur ya samu lambar girmamawa ta ƙasa ta Commander of the Order of the Mono, COM, da kuma Commander of the Order of the Niger, CON, saboda gudunmawar da ya bayar wajen bunƙasa harkokin kasuwanci a Afirka.
A al’adance, Bamanga Tukur ya riƙe sarautar gargajiya ta Tafidan Adamawa, sannan kuma ya kasance Wakilin Ganye a Jihar Adamawa.
Ya kasance mijin Hajiya Fatima Tukur, kuma daga cikin danginsa akwai Mahmud Tukur, yayin da ɗansa shi ne Awwal Tukur.
Bamanga Tukur ya rasu ne a ranar 12 ga Satumba 2026, kwanaki uku kafin cikar shekaru 91 da haihuwa, bayan rayuwa da ya shafe shekaru masu yawa yana taka rawa a siyasa, kasuwanci da harkokin ci gaban tattalin arzikin Afirka.