BEEVRLY HILLS, April 14, (THEWILL) – The former Military Administrator of Oyo State and Ondo State, Colonel Ahmed Usman, has died.
He died on Tuesday night in Jos, Plateau State.
Late Ahmed Usman was born in 1951, at Okura, Dekina, in Kogi State.
His postings in the Army included Second-in-Command, 192 Battalion, Abak and 141 Battalion, Kano (1983–1985), United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (1985–1986) and Battalion Commander G Amphibious, Elele Port Harcourt (1990–1991).
Usman was appointed Sole Administrator of Ondo State in September 1994.
While governing Ondo State, Usman installed Oba Adeleye Orisagbemi as the Attah of Ayede Ekiti.
On 17 June 1996, Usman threatened to dismiss any Ondo State Judge who granted bail to secret cult suspects.
In 1998, a former Managing Director of a subsidiary of the Odu’a Group alleged that he had given bribes to Usman while the officer served as Administrator of Ondo State.
In August 1996, Usman was deployed to Oyo state at a time of growing discontent about the military regime headed by Sani Abacha.
On 12 May 1997, a bomb explosion in the state capital of Ibadan injured two soldiers and a policeman and Usman said the perpetrators were cowards.
Two people were killed and about 20 wounded at the Salami Sports Stadium, Ibadan in April 1998, when supporters of the United Action for Democracy (UAD) disrupted a pro-Abacha rally that had earlier been addressed by Colonel Usman.
