The group returned to prominence during the administration of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua. And later in 2015, during the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. List of notable members Abba Kyari – Governor of North-Central State (1967–1974) Shehu Musa Yar'Adua – Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters (1976–1979) Mohammed Lawal Rafindadi – Director of the National Security Organisation (1984–1985) Iya Abubakar – Minister of Defence (1979–1981), Minister of Internal Affairs (1981–1982) and Senator of Nigeria (1999–2007) Ibrahim Tahir – Minister of Internal Affairs (Second Republic) Ismaila Isa Funtua – Minister of Water Resources (Second Republic) Adamu Ciroma – Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (1975–1979) and Minister of Finance (1999–2003) Sani Daura – Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (1999–2000) and Minister of Environment (2000–2001) Mahmud Tukur – Vice Chancellor of Bayero University Kano (1975–1977) and Minister of Commerce and Industry (1984–1985) Mamman Daura – editor of the New Nigerian (1969–1975), Chairman of Nigerian Television Authority (1984–1985), former board director and chairman of the Africa International Bank Hamza Rafindadi Zayyad – managing director of the Northern Nigeria Development Corporation (1976–1981) Ahmed Joda – permanent secretary of the Federal Ministries: Information, Education and Industries (1967–1978) Ibrahim Damcida – permanent secretary of the Ministry of Trade (1966–1970), permanent secretary of the Ministry of Defence (1970–1975), permanent secretary of the Ministry of Finance (1975), board director of First City Monument Bank Umaru Mutallab – Minister of Economic Development (1975–1976), Minister of Cooperatives and Supplies (1976–1979), managing director of United Bank for Africa (1978–1988), chairman of First Bank of Nigeria (1999–2009); and Chairman of Jaiz Bank References Further reading Shehu Shagari, Beckoned to Serve Heinamann Patrick Fagbola, Kaduna Mafia, Heinemann (1987) Bayo Ogunjimi, The Herd Instinct and Class Literature in Nigeria Today, A Journal of Opinion > Vol. 20, No. 2 (1992) Shehu Othman, Classes, Crises and Coup: The Demise of Shagari's Regime, African Affairs > Vol. 83, No. 333 (1984) Josephn Kenny, Sharīa and Christianity in Nigeria: Islam and a 'Secular' State, Journal of Religion in Africa > Vol. 26, Fasc. 4 (Nov 1996) Politics of Nigeria Kaduna