 With the post-independence violence in Nigeria, which heightened significantly following the assassination of Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (from Sokoto) in 1966, Maccido played a key role helping his father in trying to ease the violence.In Sokoto, a crowd of angry Muslims advanced toward the Catholic Church aiming to destroy the building as part of general anger towards Igbos and Christians.Maccido and Marafa, a brother-in-law, met the crowd and convinced them to disperse preventing destruction of the church.