Colonel Salihu Tunde Bello was Administrator of Kebbi State

Kebbi State

Kebbi State is a state in north-western Nigeria with its capital at Birnin Kebbi. The state was formed from part of Sokoto State in 1991. Kebbi State is bordered by Sokoto State, Niger State, Dosso Region in the Republic of Niger and the nation of Benin. It has a total area of...

 in Nigeria

Nigeria

Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

 from December 1993 to August 1996 during the military regime of General Sani Abacha

Sani Abacha

General Sani Abacha was a Nigerian military leader and politician. A Kanuri from Borno by tribe, he was born and brought up in Kano, Nigeria. He was the de facto President of Nigeria from 1993 to 1998....

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During his administration he achieved significant development of the state infrastructure.
In July 1999, after the return to democracy, all armed forces officers that had served in military governments for six months or more were forced to retire.
Brigadier-General Salihu Bello was among those affected by this decision.

In 2009 Salihu Bello was a member of the board of the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria.