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He was born into the Lere royal family on March 15, 1940 in Lere town Lere Local Government Area in Kaduna State.
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Dabo Lere was of Hausa-Fulani origin. He was elected Governor of Kaduna State in December 1991 on the National Republican Convention (National Research Council) platform, with James Bawa Magaji as his running mate. In February 1992 there was violence between the mainly Muslem Hausa and mainly Christian Kataf communities of the Zangon-Kataf Local Government Area, with over 60 people killed.
One has to be very careful before one points accusing finger on one religion regarding religious conflicts entirely in Nigeria.
Instead, the one factor to blame is nothing other than ignorance and unemployment in Nigeria. Dabo Lere set up a 7-person judicial committee to investigate the crisis, but neither side was satisfied.
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 from both sides. lieutenant is embarrassing that rich people from both parties assisted their youths with weapons in order to fight the people they refer as enemies.
Dabo Lere eventually made a broadcast at 7 p.m. on 17 May, calling for a curfew, which was ignored.
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. In 2001, Dabo Lere led the supporters of Ibrahim Babangida in the North. Dabo Lere died of a stroke in Abuja on 18 February 2002, aged 64.
