Aminu Kano

=== Return to Bauchi ===
With the end of his course in 1948, Aminu returned to Bauchi to resume his teaching career at the Bauchi Middle School. A few months later he was transferred to the Bauchi Teachers' Training College.<ref name=":1" />{{Rp|page=110}}

During this time, Sir [[John Stuart Macpherson|John MacPherson]], the newly appointed [[Governor of Nigeria]], was gearing up for a tour across the region. He was to tour the major cities of the North, but excluded Bauchi. Aminu and Zungur suspected that this omission was a deliberate move by the Governor and his advisors to avoid confronting the city's outspoken radicals and their list of demands and grievances. The two approached the Emir of Bauchi and informed him of the government's plan to avoid his domain, claiming it was because of Bauchi's poor school system, roads, and economy. They managed to convince him to permit them to organise a mass rally to protest the Governor's omission. This mass rally, which was the first ever held in Northern Nigeria, amassed about a thousand people.<ref name=":1" />{{Rp|pages=110-111}}

Aminu, at the time still a junior teacher, was invited to [[Kaduna]] to meet with A J Knott (the [[district officer]] who had organised the BDC in 1943), now the Chief Secretary to the Government, and Sir MacPherson. During this meeting, the governor, addressing Aminu, had reportedly said:<blockquote>You have indicated that you think we intentionally keep the North backward, and the North and South divided—that you want us to go so that your country may have independence. You're a man from an important Kano family, young and full of spirit, but you must realize that we don't intentionally prevent changes and keep the country from progressing.<ref name=":1" />{{Rp|page=115}}</blockquote>Knott proceeded to inform Aminu that they had been paying attention to his critiques of the government, stating, "We really like men like you, who are ahead of your countrymen". They offered him a position which would allow him to monitor and participate in the "financial section of the government" or even as the next editor of ''Gaskiya Ta Fi Kwabo''. After returning to Bauchi, Aminu, after considering these offers and discussing them with Zungur and others, concluded that these offers were an attempt by the government to disrupt their activist activities. Consequently, Aminu rejected the offers, informing Knott and MacPherson that he preferred to remain a teacher.<ref name=":6" />{{Rp|page=101}} He also later turned down a job as a lecturer in [[Hausa language|Hausa]] at the [[Oxford University]].<ref name=":1" />{{Rp|pages=115-119}}

However, some months later, in their ongoing efforts to disperse the Bauchi radicals, the British government transferred Aminu to Maru in [[Sokoto State|Sokoto]], appointing him as the headmaster of a newly constructed teachers' training college.<ref name=":1" />{{Rp|page=116}}<ref name=":20">{{Cite book |last=Post |first=K. W. J. |url=http://archive.org/details/nigerianfederale0000post |title=The Nigerian Federal election of 1959 : politics and administration in a developing political system. -- |date=1963 |publisher=[London] : Published for the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research, Oxford University Press |others=Internet Archive}}</ref>{{Rp|page=72}}