ABUDL, Alh Mohammadu Kokori

Council and Igbira NA Council as Councillor at different times for Police, Prison, Natural Resource, Cooperatives and Education between 1954 and 1959. According to the diaates ofpoliticalfocus of the time, hejoined the Igbira Tribal Union and rose first to become Deputy General Secretary and later General Secretary. It was from the union that he rose topolitical limelight as his peopk stood solidly behind him and ekaed him into the Northern House of Assembly in 1961. And following the alliance between the ITU and the ruling NPC, Muhammadu Kokori Abdul was made Parliamentary Secretary in the Northern Ministry of Information in 1961. He held this position till the amy took over the government in 1966. Before then, he was in Sydney, Australia for a course in Public Administration in 1965. Like most politicians of Nigeria's First Republic, Alhaji Muhammadu Kokori Abdul found rekvance in community and public service after that bkody coup of 1966. So between 1967 and 1969, he served the newly created Kwara Stateas the Assistant Community Development Officer; Nigerian States Assurance Corporation as Administrative Direaor from 1969 to 1970; Gkbal Pharmaceutical Agencies Kano as Public Relations Officer from 1970 to 1971 and Member, Federal Scholarship Board 1973 to 1976. In between he was also a Memberof the Kwara State Local Government Service Board between 1973 and 1975. He died at the Enugu Teaching Hospital on the 24th of March 1999.