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Mar 01, 1923 Died on 25 Apr 1993 (aged 70)
Fijian politician
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About Sidiq Koya
- Siddiq Moidin Koya (1924–1993) was a Fijian Indian politician, Statesman and Opposition leader.
- He succeeded to the leadership of the mostly Indo-Fijian National Federation Party (NFP) on the death of the party's founder, A.
- D.
- Patel, in October 1969, remaining in this post until 1977.
- He later served a second term as leader of the NFP, from 1984 to 1987. Koya is credited with his role in paving the way for Fijian independence from Britain in 1970.
- The National Federation Party had been opposing plans for independence without significant changes to the constitution.
- The NFP, in particular, wanted a legislature to be elected by universal suffrage from a common electoral roll of all voters – a demand rejected by the main ethnic Fijian politicians, who wanted a communal franchise with parliamentary seats allocated among the different ethnic groups, elected from ethnic electoral rolls.
- Sidiq Koya was more willing to compromise than his predecessor, and he was instrumental in persuading his party and his people to accept independence with a communal franchise.
