HIS meteoric rise in the accounting profession is just as arresting as his political ascendancy within a relatively short period of time. Dankwambo Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo, Executive Governor of Gombe State cuts the profile of a risen phoenix, a cool calculating executrix that seems to have plotted, almost with precision , his ascendancy both professionally and politically. When the nation returned to democratic civil rule in 1999, Alhaji Habu Hashidu, a former minister of agriculture, won election as governor, but failed to secure re-election in 2003. A businessman, Alhaji Danjuma Goje of the PDP defeated him, and served as governor for two straight terms till 2011. All that time, Dankwambo was plotting his moves. First working with Coopers & Lybrand in 1985, the nation’s former number one book-keeper also worked at the Central Bank of Nigeria from 1988 to 1999, from where he was appointed Accountant-General of Gombe State, a post he held till 2005 when he was appointed ...
