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MEET MALAMI UMARU ALTINE; THE FIRST ELECTED MAYOR OF ENUGU
Malam Umaru Altine (1952 – 1958), a Northern Fulani man was the first elected Mayor of Enugu, in the East, and was even re-elected for a second term.
Malam Umaru Altine was the Vice Chairman of the NCNC Youth Association at Enugu. He identified with the NCNC as a political party. During elections NCNC decided to nominate him at Coal Camp where he lived.
He contested twice for the post of Mayor of Enugu against Igbo opponents and won twice.
The second election was even more significant in the sense that NCNC had asked him to step down for somebody else and he refused. Instead, he resigned from NCNC, ran as an Independent candidate and beat the NCNC candidate.
