David Obadiah Lot

David Obadiah Vrengkat Lot MBE was a Nigerian religious leader of the Church of Christ denomination and a politician from the Middle Belt region of Nigeria.

He was raised in the Christian faith and attended a missionary primary school in his district of Panyam.

He was interested in ways of improving the social and political lot of Christians in the middle belt region and to protect them from the dominant Islamic Hausa–Fulani group.

In 1950, he was a founding member and leader of the Middle Zone League (MZL) and a year later contested and won a seat to the House of Representative.

The opposition to the move was led by Joseph Tarka a much younger politician from Tiv land.