In 1952, Mallam Umaru Altine became the first elected Mayor of the Enugu Municipal Council. A post he held till 1958.

A Fulani cattle rearer from Sokoto, Mallam Altine, who was married to an Igbo woman, Esther Ozueh, was elected for two terms.

In his first term, he had run as an NCNC candidate but in the build-up to the elections for his second term, the NCNC asked him to step down for another candidate but he refused and was forced to resign from the NCNC.

Nevertheless, he ran as an independent candidate and defeated the NCNC candidate, D.T Inyang, by 117 to 53 votes. In fact, in his ward, he was returned unopposed.

Thus, a Fulani man from Sifawa, in the then Sokoto Province, almost 700 miles from the Eastern Region, who had lived in Enugu for less than 5 years, became the first Mayor of the Capital of the Eastern Region.

https://opinion.premiumtimesng.com/2020/10/29/mallam-umaru-altine-first-mayor-of-enugu-municipal-council-1952-1958-by-femi-kehinde/

Trash. Living in Igbo land doesn't qualify you as a mayor

Meanwhile, the tolerant south had no problem with that back then but thereafter, his brethren now thing Enugu and other parts of Nigeria is their fiefdom to rule anyhow.

Fahdiga1:
Trash. Living in Igbo land doesn't qualify you as a mayor

This is history

ok

That was when igbos were nationalist.. under Zik of Africa and still are .. only this time with sense.

Igbos are never born tribalists like their western counter part.. that always sing go back to your region as if they’re able to manage common Ibadan...

Today Ibadan is will soon be pronounced as world heritage site and same Yoruba will take it as thing of glory

Get you a$$ outta there, don't bring your crap to the east, it won't work.

They wanted to prove a point so that they can rule us in Yoruba land.

Why Mayor and not make him the Premier of the Esatern region?
Nnamdi Azikiwe felt he was wise abi