[12] He left the Nigeria Police Force in February 1956 and returned home to Gan, Kanai, alongside his wife, Ladi, who soon became the first seamstress in Atyapland.

[13] In 1958, Dauke was admitted into the Institute of Administration, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, for a six-month Secretarial Studies program, which he concluded in 1959.

This, thus, won him an automatic scholarship to go to Coleg Harlech, North Wales, United Kingdom, to study Psychology and Economics at advanced level.

[18] In 1948, Dauke got to meet with Ladi, a pen-friend he got to know in Zaria Middle School through his friend, Adam Atar, for the very first time in Ashong Ashyui on a market day.

[20] Dauke began the move towards politics after leaving the Nigeria Police Force, in the later part of 1956, due to his keen interest in the social, economic and political developments of his people, the Atyab and the entire Southern Zaria, and got so close to politicians like Honourable Dauda Haruna from Kwoi, then representing Southern Zaria in the [Northern Nigeria] House of Assembly, Kaduna, and also met others like Solomon Lar, Reverend David Lot and Tanko Yusufu.

That was the day he resumed work and when his Acting appointment expired on 28 September, he fully assumed the position of a District Head after his coronation on 1 October 1967 in which he was made to pick a Zaria royal title and he chose Kuyan Banan Zazzau.

[27] His appointment was not only seen as a means of compensation for his lost bid for a seat in the Northern Region House of Representatives in Kaduna but, also most importantly, to quell the decades-long agitations by the Atyap people for self-autonomy.

He had the longest reign as District Head of Zangon Kataf and Kuyan Banan Zazzau for 28 years (1967-1995) when the Atyap people alongside the Bajju, Gwong and Sanga were formally removed from the Zazzau (Zaria) Emirate Council by the Kaduna State government military government of Lawal Jafaru Isa, then in power and the long overdue Atyap Chiefdom was created.

[31] Following the 1992 Zangon Kataf crises of 6 February and 15 and 16 May at least 21 indigenous Atyap people were arrested and left in detention without charge or trial under Decree 2 of 1984 enacted by the Nigerian military government.