Datti Abubakar

Datti Sadiq Abubakar
Military Governor of Anambra State
In office
July 1978  October 1979
Preceded by John Atom Kpera
Succeeded by Jim Nwobodo
Personal details
Born 30 March 1939
Kano, Nigeria
Died 25 February 2005(2005-02-25) (aged 65)

Colonel Datti Sadiq Abubakar was Military Governor of Anambra State in Nigeria from July 1978 to October 1979 during the military regime of General Olusegun Obasanjo.[1]

He was a graduate of Rumfa College, Kano.[2] In July 1966 Lieutenant Datti Abubakar, Recce, was at the Abeokuta Garrison when most of the Igbo officers were killed, playing an active role in the coup that overthrew Major-General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi.[3]

Abubakar was appointed Military Governor of Anambra State in July 1978, holding the position until October 1979.[1] He placed the schools firmly under his control through a supervisory commission with broad powers over policy and staffing.[4] Following major religious riots in Kano State in 1980, he was a member of the Kano Disturbances Tribunal of Inquiry to investigate causes and make recommendations.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 "Nigerian States". WorldStatesmen. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
  2. Musa Umar Kazaure (June 18, 2003). "Rumfa college Kano: School under royal eyes". Daily Trust. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
  3. Nowa Omoigui. "Operation Aure (2): Planning to Overthrow General Ironsi". Gamji. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
  4. "Staff Discipline in the Anambra State Education Commission: A Review of Nsukka Education Zone from 1980 - 1988". University of Nigeria. September 1990. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
  5. Toyin Falola (1998). Violence in Nigeria: the crisis of religious politics and secular ideologies. University Rochester Press. p. 159. ISBN 1-58046-018-6.


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