[1] He was a Mahdist leader, a religious zealot who managed to establish himself at Burmi on the border between Gombe and Fika.
[2] During these periods, a wave of revolutionary Mahdism was swept through western emirates of Sokoto and eastern emirate of Gombe.
[3] Gaini managed to withstand for years against the combined forces of Gombe and the Sokoto Caliphate, and was finally defeated and exiled by the British Colonial forces in 1902.
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