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Rural development, education and agriculture across the old Plateau State (then including today's Nasarawa), on the Nigeria People's Party platform on which Lar was elected in 1979.

Lar is remembered in Plateau as a foundational modern governor who extended roads, schools and rural infrastructure into long-neglected districts. A quantified, sourced account of delivery over 1979–1983 is limited in the summary record.

Implicit in his 1979 election as governor of Plateau State on the NPP platform.

Lar's elected government was removed by the December 1983 coup. He was later a detainee under the military, then in 1998–1999 became the first national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party and served as Minister of Police Affairs under Obasanjo.