Garba Nadama (1938 – 4 May 2020) was a Nigerian politician who was the second civilian governor of Sokoto State, Nigeria, in the short-lived Nigerian Second Republic, holding office from January 1982 to November 1983. He succeeded Shehu Kangiwa, who had died in a polo accident.^[1]

Garba Nadama obtained a Ph.D. in history from Ahmadu Bello University in 1977.^[2]

Nadama was a fierce rival of Alhaji Ibrahim Gusau for the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) nomination for Sokoto deputy governor in 1979.^[3] He was described as a quiet, urbane and principled conservative politician.^[4] In July 1982 Sokoto State received a N96 million loan from the World Bank.^[5] In December 1982, the Federal government provided N400,000 to Sokoto State to use in reducing gully erosion. Nadama described the amount as meager and insufficient to handle the problem.^[6] On 8 March 1993 he commissioned a new transmitter for the Nigerian Television Authority in Gusau.^[7] The Federal Polytechnic, Kaura-Namoda (now in Zamfara State) was established during his tenure.^[8]

Nadama left office after the 1983 military coup in which Major General Muhammadu Buhari took power.^[1][9]

Nadama became a member of the National Political Reform Council, and later became a prominent member of People's Democratic Party (PDP).^[4] Nadama became a director of Societe Generale Bank Nigeria (SGBN).^[10] In April 2008, he was deputy National Secretary of a committee to review recommendations for resolving internal differences in the PDP.^[11]

Nadama died on 4 May 2020 from COVID-19^[12] and is survived by four wives and eighteen children.^[13][14]