Colonel Victor Afamefula Ozodinobi was appointed military governor of

Borno State Borno State is a state in the North-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria, bordered by Yobe to the west, Gombe to the southwest, and Adamawa to the south while its eastern border forms part of the national border with Cameroon, its northern border ...

in August 1996 during the military regime of General

Sani Abacha Sani Abacha (20 September 1943 – 8 June 1998) was a Nigerian military officer and politician who ruled as the military head of state of Nigeria from 1993 until his death in 1998. He seized power on 17 November 1993 in the last successful c ...

. He stopped the practice of using troops to perform farm work, prevalent before his regime. He was reportedly sacked from his position as governor and retired from the army because he insisted that scholarships should be reserved for the poor citizens of the state. Another reason given is that during a fuel shortage he personally escorted some tanker loads of petrol to prevent them going astray.

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Possibly living people Year of birth missing Governors of Borno State Nigerian Christians {{Nigeria-mil-bio-stub