About Simeon Tarka
Lived 1953 – 2019 (aged 65–66). Simeon Tarka was a politician.
Simeon Tarka (1953–2019) was a Nigerian politician and statesman from Benue State. At the age of 28, he was elected to the Federal House of Representatives, serving as its youngest member from 1979 to 1983 during the Nigerian Second Republic. He was the eldest son of the influential Nigerian politician Joseph Tarka.
Tarka studied International Relations and Journalism at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, graduating a year before his election to the National Assembly.
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Nigerian politician (1953–2019)
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