Nnamdi Azikiwe, ɗan siyasar Nijeriya ne. An haife shi a shekara ta alif dubu daya da dari tara da hudu 1904, a garin Zungeru, dake Arewacin Najeriya; ya mutu a shekara ta alif dubu daya da dari tara da sittin da shida 1996. Nnamdi Azikiwe shugaban kasar Najeriya neshi daga watan Oktoba 1963 zuwa watan Janairun 1966 (bayan Sarauniyar Ingila Elizabeth na biyu - kafin Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi).
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An haifi Dr Nnamdi, Azikiwe a ranar 16 ga watan Nuwamba, 1904 a Zungeru, Jihar Neja, Najeriya. Azikiwe ya halarci makarantun firamare da sakandare daban-daban a garin Onitsha, Calabar , Lagos. Ya je kasar Amurka a 1925, inda ya halarci makarantu da yawa. Azikiwe ya sami takaddun shaida da digiri da yawa, gami da digiri na farko da na biyu daga Jami'ar Lincoln a Pennsylvania da digiri na biyu na biyu daga Jami'ar Pennsylvania. A 1934 ya tafi Gold Coast (yanzu Ghana), inda ya kafa jarida mai kishin kasa kuma ya kasance mai ba da shawara ga Kwame Nkrumah (wanda daga baya ya zama shugaban Ghana na farko) kafin ya dawo Najeriya a shekarar 1937.
Ya zama Sakatare-Janar na Majalisar Kasa Najeriya da Kamaru (NCNC). Bayan mutuwar Herbert Macaulay a Kano a shekarar 1946,
ya zama shugaban NCNC. Ya samar da yankin Gabas tareda gabatar da gwamnatin yankin.[1].
An zabi Dr Azikiwe a matsayin Firimiya na yankin Gabas a 1954 karkashin Majalisar Kasa ta Najeriya (NCNC), sun yi takara a babban zaɓen 1959. Jam'iyyar sa tasamu mafi rinjayen kujeru a majalisar wakilai ta tarayya. Domin kafa gwamnati a matakin tarayya, jam’iyyar Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe (NCNC) ta kafa kawance da jam’iyyar[2] Arewa Peoples Congress (NPC). Daga baya aka nada shi a matsayin Gwamna-Janar na Najeriya a ranar 1 ga Oktoba, 1960. Da Nijeriya ta zama Jamhuriya a 1963, Dr Azikiwe ya zama shugaban Najeriya na farko. A jamhuriya ta biyu, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe ya taka rawa sosai a zaben 1979. Ya yi takara a matsayin dan takarar shugaban kasa a karkashin jam’iyyar NPP amma ya zo na uku a zaben.