Lawal Jafaru Isa
| Lawal Jafaru Isa | |
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| Administrator of Kaduna State | |
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In office 9 December 1993 – 22 August 1996 |
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| Preceded by | Mohammed Dabo Lere |
| Succeeded by | Hammed Ali |
Brigadier General (retired) Lawal Jafaru Isa was Military Administrator of Kaduna State from December 1993 to August 1996 during the military regime of General Sani Abacha. In 1996, Isa created several chiefdoms for the southern Zaria or Kaduna people in order to improve peace in Kaduna State.
In September 2000, he was a leading member of the newly formed Arewa Consultative Forum, a northern political lobbying group. He became a leader of the United Nigerian Development Forum, an association friendly to the election of General Ibrahim Babangida in the April 2003 Presidential contest. He became a director of Bank PHB.
Ifeanyi Nwolisa wrote this about him: “I can’t actually remember all the past governors of Kaduna state, but there is a particular one that is my favorite –the then Lt Col. Lawal Jafaru Isa who governed Kaduna from December 1993 – September 1996. It was during his time that Kaduna was at its most volatile because we just had the Zongo Kataf riot in 1992. His quick interventions and good leadership instincts ensured that the crisis did not escalate.”
Nwolisa added, “I remember meeting the Lt. Colonel, as a boy’s brigade then with the Anglican faith, in one of the synod meetings organized in St Michael’s Anglican Church. Lt Col. Lawal Jafaru Isa though a Muslim did not have a problem participating as a special guest of honor. That was good judgment because the move ensured that Christians began to trust him and had good faith in the government to defend all lives of the citizens irrespective of ethnic background. The good intention of Lt Col. Lawal Jafaru Isa in uniting all residents in the state created a model for subsequent governors to follow, which is to act with urgency in any occurrence of even the slightest of crisis.”
Lawal Jafaru Isa, a staunch supporter of President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria (PMB), had contested for the governorship of his native Kano state twice since the return of democracy to Nigeria in 1999. Firstly, he contested under Buhari’s newly formed Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in 2011 but was defeated by the intra-party squabbles with the son of Late Head of State General Sani Abacha, Alhaji Muhammad Abacha.
His second shot for power under the All Progressive Congress (APC) in 2015 didn’t see the light of the day also after he was floored in the party’s primary by the present governor of the state, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje.
In the two occasions Jafaru Isa ran for gubernatorial elections, he premised his campaign on integrity. Many of his associates, including Yakubu Ya’u Isa, claimed he is as clean as Muhammadu Buhari whom some Nigerians tag Mr. Integrity.
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