ABSTRACT
Evidently the vizier appointed Tukur clandestinely in the manner for fear of violence in a public assembly at the mosque. During the ten days that Tukur spent in seclusion in the palace forecourt, receiving declarations of allegiance from officials, princes, clerics and other notables, few of Abdullahi’s sons visited him to render homage. The Chronicle reports a long estrangement between the Wombai Shehu and ex-Galadima Yusufu following Abdullahi’s death; their rapprochement removed the final obstacle to the Yusufawa revolt. Oral traditions at Kano attribute the initiative for revolt to the Wombai Shehu. The civil war in fact developed, centred, and concluded within the “dakin Shekarathat is, among the descendants of the sons that Shekara had borne to Dabo; but, beginning in strife between descendants of Abdullahi on the one hand and those of Mamman Bello and Usuman on the other.
