 In the 1964 election, he had to contend with a Young NEPU candidate who was a School teacher by name Musa Said Abubakar Magami and future governor of Kano, Abubakar Rimi who contested as an independent candidate but all of them pulled out of the race before the elections were contested.Wada is a paternal uncle of the late Murtala Mohammed, former Nigerian president.He ran a fairly successful transport business after the 1966 coup that abolished the first republic.