Mohammed Dabo Lere

Mohammed Dabo Lere
Governor of Kaduna State
In office 2 January 1992 – November 1983
Preceded by	Tanko Ayuba
Succeeded by	Lawal Jafaru Isa
Personal details
Born	1940 Lere LGA, Kaduna State, Nigeria
Died	18 February 2002

Alhaji Mohammed Dabo Lere (born 1952) is a Nigerian politician who was elected Governor of Kaduna State, Nigeria between January 1992 and November 1983 during the Nigerian Third Republic, leaving office after the military coup that brought General Sani Abacha to power.^[1]

Dabo Lere was of Hausa-Fulani origin. He was born in Lere Local Government Area in southern Kaduna State, and grew up in Zango.^[2]

Dabo Lere was elected Governor of Kaduna State in December 1991 on the National Republican Convention (NRC) platform, with James Bawa Magaji as his running mate.^[3] In February 1992 there was violence between the mainly Moslem Hausa and mainly Christian Kataf communities of the Zangon-Kataf Local Government Area, with over 60 people killed. Dabo Lere set up a 7-person judicial committee to investigate the crisis, but neither side was satisfied.^[4] On 15 May 1992 there was a further outbreak of violence in Zangon-Kataf, and after news spread to Kaduna there was further violence in reprisal, mainly directed against Christians by the Hausa incited by preachers calling for a jihad. Dabo Lere eventually made a broadcast at 7 p.m. on 17 May, calling for a curfew, which was ignored.^[5] After four days, calm returned when President Ibrahim Babangida ordered a dusk-to-dawn curfew and rushed in army troops and riot police from other states.^[6]

In 2001, Dabo Lere led the supporters of Ibrahim Babangida in the North.^[7]

Dabo Lere died of a stroke in Abuja on 18 February 2002, aged 64.^[8]

References

1. ^ "Nigerian States". WorldStatesmen. http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Nigeria_federal_states.htm. Retrieved 2010-03-29. 
2. ^ Samuel G. Egwu (1998). Structural adjustment, agrarian change, and rural ethnicity in Nigeria. Nordic Africa Institute. p. 103. ISBN 9171064265. 
3. ^ "Why Kaduna State Should Be Split - Ex-Deputy Gov". Daily Trust. 12 November 2008. http://allafrica.com/stories/200811130925.html. Retrieved 2010-03-29. 
4. ^ Nereus Nwosu (October 1996). "Religion and the Crisis of National Unity in Nigeria". University on Ilorin. p. 146. http://jambo.africa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kiroku/asm_normal/abstracts/pdf/ASM%20%20Vol.17%20No.3%201996/Nereus%20I.%20NWOSU.pdf. Retrieved 2010-03-29. 
5. ^ Toyin Falola (2001). Violence in Nigeria: The Crisis of Religious Politics and Secular Ideologies. University Rochester Press. p. 217ff. ISBN 1580460526. 
6. ^ "Nigeria Fighting Kills 300 Ethnic Tensions Threaten Election". The Washington Post. May 20, 1992. http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/keyword/ethnic-groups/featured/4. Retrieved 2010-03-29. 
7. ^ "Cold Calculations for Power". ThisDay. 2001-04-14. http://www.thisdayonline.com/archive/2001/04/14/20010414cov02.html. Retrieved 2010-03-29. 
8. ^ Suleiman Mohammed (19 February 2002). "Dabo Lere is Dead". Daily Trust. http://allafrica.com/stories/200202190212.html. Retrieved 2010-03-29. 

Persondata
Name	Lere, Dabo Mohammed
Alternative names
Short description	Governor of Kaduna State, Nigeria
Date of birth	1940
Place of birth	Lere, Nigeria
Date of death	18 February 2002
Place of death