The building was scheduled to be demolished in July 2009 to make space for parking during a planned one-day visit by President Umaru Yar'Adua.
[3] In October 1986 he arranged for large-scale distribution of grain to Kano State farmers whose crops had been destroyed by pests.
[5] Wing Commander Mohammed N. Umaru was the eighth governor of Kwara State from September 1985 to August 1986.
He opened the Lokoja Stadium and the Resinoplast Plastic Industry in Ilorin, and completed the specialist hospitals with an external loan of N11.2 million approved by the Federal Government.
He also regularly supplied medical equipment and drugs to hospitals and health centres to ensure effective healthcare delivery services in both rural and urban centres, he approved the Unified Salary Structure (USS) for Kwara State Polytechnic and Kwara state College of Education.