Dafinone worked on various fact finding committees during the military administration of Yakubu Gowon.

Dafinone finished his secondary education at Abeokuta Grammar School, he later became an employee of the colonial service working at the Northern Secretariat in Kaduna State.

At the finance department, his function was to make treasury estimates of the funding needs of the native authorities within the Northern region.

A year later he was in another committee, a tribunal constituted to probe the affairs of the Apapa road project.

[1] His report, later uncovered unethical charges such as forging of winning coupons after results had been announced.