An nada Laftanar Kanar (daga baya Birgediya) Umaru Mohammed Gwamnan Jihar Arewa maso Yamma a Najeriya a watan Yulin shekara ta 1975 a farkon mulkin soja na Janar Murtala Mohammed . A watan Fabrairun shekara ta 1976 an raba Jihar Arewa maso Yamma zuwa Jihar Neja da Jihar Sakkwato . Umaru Mohammed ya ci gaba da zama Gwamnan Jihar Sakkwato har zuwa Yulin shekara ta 1978. Umaru Mohammed ya rasu ne a ranar 26 ga watan Mayun shekara ta 1980 a wani hatsarin jirgin saman Fokker F27 na sojojin sama akan hanyar zuwa Sao Tomé da Principe a wani aikin diflomasiyya. Ya kasance yana tafiya ne a madadin kwararren abokinsa Ibrahim Babangida, wanda aka amince da shi ya tafi Amurka don horar da kwararru. "Nigerian States". WorldStatesmen. Retrieved 2010-01-06. Nowa Omoigui. "Barracks: The History Behind Those Names". Dawodu. Retrieved 2010-01-06.