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About Abba Kyari
- Abba Kyari (17 November 1938 – 25 November 2018) was a Nigerian Army Brigadier who served as Governor of the now defunct North-Central State, Nigeria after it was formed from the Northern Region during the military regime of General Yakubu Gowon.
- As an army officer Kyari had survived a mutiny by a battalion under his command in the aftermath of the July 1966 Nigerian counter-coup.
- He subsequently rose to command the Nigerian Army's 1 Brigade and then the army's artillery branch.
- In July 1967 he was appointed governor of North-Central State under the military government of Yakubu Gowon.
- He held the position for seven years and implemented a masterplan for the development of the city of Kaduna.
- He cautiously welcomed the return to civilian rule.
- Kyari later led the northern delegation of the 1994 National Constitutional Conference and chaired its National Defence Committee.
- After his retirement he was a director or chairman of several businesses in Nigeria.
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