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The campaign in Kaduna today is a homecoming of sorts for PMB. Kaduna is where he retired to after his release from a 40-month detention by IBB (following the August 1985 coup) in 1988. #PMB4Plus4
It was during his time as Nigeria’s Petroleum Minister in the late 1970s that the construction contract for the Kaduna Refinery, the 3rd Refinery in Nigeria, was signed.

Benin, where he campaigned yesterday, is where he spent most of the 40-month detention (1985–88)
PMB campaigning in Plateau State today. Also a homecoming of sorts for him. His last military posting before becoming Head of State was in Plateau State. He served as General Officer Commanding (GOC), 3rd Armored Division, Jos, from November 1981 — December 31, 1983.
As of the time PMB served in the Nigerian Army, there were only 4 Divisions. He served in all 4 Divisions - as General Officer Commanding (GOC) in three of them (2nd, 3rd and 4th Divisions), and Assistant Adjutant General in the fourth, the 1st Infantry Division.
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A friend (who has a Biz in the service industry) recently told me they didn’t realize, all the while they were supporting PMB in 2015, just how much of their Biz patronage came from the free money that flowed under GEJ/PDP. That money trickled everywhere

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Been doing a bit of traveling around Nigeria (more to come), seeing ongoing infrastructure projects. Impressive sights. What I find most intriguing is how unaware people are, even of projects near them. Part of issue is prob that we just have grown up not expecting these things.
There are still people who will argue that nothing is happening re #LagosIbadanRail. For some its partisan blindness (as the Yoruba say, you can't wake a man pretending to be asleep).

But for many others its just genuine disbelief. Because they haven't seen it, it can't exist.
Another striking thing is THE SHEER SCALE of what needs to be done. Even after Buhari's 8 years,even with all the focus on #Infra, there will still be a lot to be done. Because for much of the time in our history(when we had money!) we didn't do these things. The DEFICIT is much.
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First time I listened in person to PMB speak was at Chatham House,2011. He told the story of a 1961 UK Summer Holiday Trip awarded by the Shipping Co. Elder Dempster —he was in Form 6, & got the single slot allocated to Northern Nigeria.This week I came across a photo of the trip
I recall him saying how surprised he was that he, with no influential family members, got that single Northern slot, when he had classmates like the late Shehu Yar’Adua, whose father was a Federal Minister. “That was when there was social justice [in Nigeria],” he said.
The Elder Dempster Prize was to reward selection in what was a nationwide competition. (Not sure what the contest involved exactly). At the time the Northern Elite typically sent their children to Barewa College; he was in Katsina Provincial Sec School, where he was Head Boy.
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