be a grassroots mobilizer, using the arts of dance and drama for public social mobilization and action. In 1983, he ran for election and won a landslide victory as a federal senator representing the Benue North-East constituency at the age of 34. He served in the senate as the Deputy Chief Whip. His tenure would however be truncated by a coup led by Major General Muhammadu Buhari, which ended the second republic on 31 December 1983. In 1994, he was elected to the National Constitutional Conference. In 2019, he was a presidential aspirant under the platform of the Social Democratic Party. During his campaigns, Hagher urged the EFCC to prosecute presidents with fraudulent manifestoes, citing for example that the incumbent, Muhammadu Buhari, had promised to provide at least 20% of annual budgets for education. Still, less than 7% of the budget was being allocated to the sector. He also cited Buhari's campaign promise of setting up special courts, accelerating trials, and jailing terrorists, kidnappers, and other criminals. He lamented that Nigeria had become the most insecure place to be, torn apart along religious and ethnic lines, and was gradually becoming a failed state. He hinged his campaign on a deliberate revolution of hope based on education, restructuring, modern infrastructure and human development at a pace befitting of a modern state. Advocacy and associations Iyorwuese Hagher was the Founding Chairman of the Association of Pro-chancellors of Private Universities of Nigeria (APPUN); Founder/Honorary President of Leadership Institute Nigeria and Director of the Association of Nigerians against Corruption (ANAC). He is at present Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Pro-Chancellors of Private Universities of Nigeria and President, of the African Leadership Institute, USA. He is also a mentor at the Graduate School of Leadership and Change at Antioch University. He is a member of the International Council of Management Consulting Institutes, a Fellow of the Society of Nigerian Theatre Artists and Institute of Management Consultants. Hagher is a recipient of one of Nigeria's highest honours, Officer of the Order of the Niger, for his role in peacebuilding in Nigeria, especially in negotiating for peace among the warring ethnic groups of Central Nigeria in 2003. In 2020, he was awarded the Nigerians in Diaspora Integrity Ambassador at the Gani Fawehinmi Impact and Integrity Awards for his selfless service to humanity. Bibliography Once upon an eagle Global Home and Other Plays The Masquerade and