Karidjo Mahamadou

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Karidjo Mahamadou (11 September 1953 – 20 August 2025) was a Nigerien politician and a founding member of the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS-Tarayya). He worked as a teacher before entering politics.

Life and career
- Mahamadou helped found the PNDS, and at the party’s Constitutive General Assembly in December 1990 he was named First Deputy Secretary for Organization.
- He was elected to Niger’s National Assembly as a PNDS candidate in February 1993. He also served as Prefect of the Maradi Region for a time.
- At the PNDS Fourth Ordinary Congress in September 2004, he was elected Fourth Deputy Secretary-General, a position he retained after the Fifth Ordinary Congress in July 2009.
- After President Mahamadou Issoufou won the 2011 presidential election, Karidjo Mahamadou was appointed Minister of National Defense on 21 April 2011, taking over from Mamadou Ousseini at a handover ceremony on 26 April 2011.
- He was re-elected to the National Assembly in February 2016. After Issoufou began a second term, Hassoumi Massaoudou replaced him as Minister of National Defense on 11 April 2016.
- As a Deputy in the National Assembly, Mahamadou was one of four deputies elected to the seven-member High Court of Justice and was sworn in on 28 May 2016, serving as its President.

Death
Karidjo Mahamadou died on 20 August 2025 at the age of 71.