This interview vividly captures the political disillusionment that replaced the optimism of 1960. Alhaja Musa recounts the palpable tension and fear that gripped Lagos as the government struggled with political violence in the Western Region and the rigging of the 1964 federal elections. She describes daily life in a capital city where political corruption was becoming normalized and the dream of unity was fracturing along ethnic lines. Her story is a key civilian account of how the seeds of the 1966 coup and the Civil War were sown through the failure of political leadership in the mid-1960s.