The immediate practical implication for me was that I had less than 24 hours to decide whether to accept or reject my appointment into the Political Bureau. Their mandate was that I should go into the Political Bureau and wage a class struggle along the mass line. I left Lagos by air to Kaduna in the evening of Sunday, January 12. The Political Bureau, with all its 17 members was duly inaugurated by General Babangida on Monday, January 13, 1986. The Political Bureau started work in Abuja immediately after its inauguration.

Source: The Guardian January 04, 2018 03:45 UTC