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In 1954, Bello became the first Premier of Northern Nigeria. But I could not avoid the obligation of my birth and destiny. During his period of premiership, his biographer, John Paden described him as a progressive conservative, because he was an agent of change and also of the traditional elites.

Views

In a speech he made on the occasion of his Installation as Chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria on 23rd November 1963, he stated that “We are unique in that we stand at the meeting Point of two of the major cultural system of the world; Islamic culture from the East and Christain culture from the West, and meeting in the Presence of a third culture, that of the ancient state and empires of African itself.

Background

Ahmadu Bello was born on June 12, 1910 in a village called Rabah, Eastward from Sokoto, to the family of Malam Ibrahim and Mariyamu Bello, the district head of Rabah Son of Sultan Abubakar Atiku, Son of Sultan Muhammadu Bello, Son of Sheikh Usman Bin Fodiyo, the founding father of the Sokoto caliphate at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

As a member of the assembly, he was a notable voice for northern interests and embraced a style of consultation and consensus with the major representatives of the northern emirates namely Kano, Bornu and Sokoto. In 1948, he got a government scholarship and was off to England to study Local Government Administration which broadened his understanding and knowledge of governance.

After returning from Britain, he was nominated to represent the province of Sokoto in the regional House of Assembly.

We are proud to our way of life and are honoured that we have the priviledge of displaying a few of its many aspects”.

“I am impatient, and who would not be with all that lies before me and the responsibilities that have been placed upon me? 1909 to the family of Mallam Ibrahim Bello. After spending five years at Katsina, he was appointed by the Sultan to become a teacher at the Sokoto Middle School, his former school which had undergone rapid transformation.

In 1934, he was made the district head of Rabbah, four years later, he was promoted and sent to Gusau to become a divisional head.

The commission recommended the introduction of secular subjects in the schools and creation of different classes for pupils. He was still serving as premier of Northern Nigeria at the time. In the 1959 independence elections, Bello led the NPC to win a plurality of the parliamentary seats. In the first elections held in Northern Nigeria in 1952, Sir Ahmadu Bello won a seat in the Northern House of Assembly, and became a member of the regional executive council as minister of works.

Bello lost his father when he was only six years old. Bello was successively minister of Works, of Local Government, and of Community Development in the Northern Region of Nigeria.In 1954, Bello became the first Premier of Northern Nigeria. From 1931 to1934, Bello taught at Sokoto Middle School when he joined the native administration under a colonial set up, he was appointed the district head of Rabah (as his father earlier was) from 1934 to 1938.

Career

In 1934, Bello was made the District Head of Rabah by Sultan Hassan dan Muazu, succeeding his brother; in 1938, he got a promotion as the Divisional Head of Gusau (now in present-day Zamfara State) and became a member of the Sultan's council.

Education

Ahmadu Bello began his formal Western Education at Sokoto and later proceeded to Sokoto Provisional school, and passed out at age sixteen. Bello's NPC forged an alliance with Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe's NCNC (National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons) to form Nigeria's first indigenous federal government which led to independence from Britain.

Later, he was put in charge of the Sokoto Province to oversee 47 districts and by 1944, he was back at the Sultan’s Palace to work as the Chief Secretary of the State Native Administration.

In the 1940s, he joined Jamiyya Mutanen Arewa which would later become the NPC in 1951. Bello was successively minister of Works, of Local Government, and of Community Development in the Northern Region of Nigeria.

In 1954, Bello became the first Premier of Northern Nigeria.

He was selected among with others as a memebr of a committee that redrafted the Richards Constitution and he also attended a general conference in Ibadan. He also held the title of Sardauna of Sokoto.