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That night when the votes were being tallied it was obvious that the two protagonists in the unfolding saga, the APC and PDP, were running neck to neck and Kano metropolitan was being put in the position of the decider. It was a dicey situation, but seasoned punters would readily have put their last naira on the opposition party to win.
It was an unusual spectacle seeing a Commissioner of Police, dressed in complete regalia, taking the lead to control a potentially riotous crowd. It was even more so to see him standing on the back of a vehicle, exposing himself in the most vulnerable position possible and surrounded by a large crowd. The surprising thing was that nobody took a pot shot at him and he was not stoned.
Back in 1979 when it was early years in my public service career I was an Administrative Officer in Chad Basin Development Authority, CBDA, and I recall that we faced a restive situation when we were preparing to launch the first phase of the South Chad Irrigation Project – the largest in the country then. General Olusegun Obasanjo, then Head of State, was ready to come and launch the project as one of his final official duties before handing over to a civilian administration.
There was no alternative for CBDA but to quickly sort out its problems with the locals. Fortunately, the Board Chairman was Dr. Mohamet Lawan, who had risen from the farms to become the first indigenous Permanent Secretary of the Northern Nigerian Ministry of Agriculture. He had an intimate knowledge of most parts of northern Borno. And he set to work immediately.
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