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Brought up in a foster family for turning out to be a girl and not the son her ex-military father passionately wishes to have, Sameera Hassan, History graduate, gets entangled in a love match. She easily becomes disenchanted with SagIr Ado, a fiercely jealous banker lacking the devotion to support their love. She marries Aliyu Usman. Upon writing the law of the jungle which is critical of dictator General Danjuma, Sameera goes missing; sympathetic Brigadier Saleem topples the General, paving the way for Sameera too jump into the lelee on the country's return to politics. Of the UPP and SMP, which party will she join? In a deft switch to Nigerian politics, the author shows a female politician's handling of public office in a refreshing style not tackled so far in Nigerian fiction.