Former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (retd.), said as a young soldier in Germany in 1964, he was unable to reach the woman he loved back home in Minna because no single family in the entire town owned a private telephone line.
Abdulsalami disclosed that he had been engaged to a woman before departing for military training abroad, deliberately delaying the wedding because he did not want to leave a new bride behind, only for her father to give her hand to another man.
The revelations are contained in Chapter 25 of Abdulsalami’s 264-page, 27-chapter autobiography titled ‘Call of Duty,’ obtained by our correspondent at the public presentation of the book at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja.
Abdulsalami blamed the primitive state of telecommunications in the early 1960s in Nigeria for the loss of his first relationship.
“I desperately wanted to speak with her from Germany but it wasn’t
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