A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Umar Na’Abba, has died in Abuja at the age of 65 years.
Mr Ahmed Tijjani Lawal, an Aide to the deceased, disclosed this in a telephone interview with newsmen on Wednesday in Kano.
He said that the 8th speaker died in the early hours of Wednesday at the National Hospital, Abuja.
Na’Abba emerged as the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate in the April 1999 National Assembly election in Kano Municipal Federal Constituency of Kano state.
He left behind one wife, 10 children and three grandchildren.
“We are currently making arrangements to transport the corpse to Kano for burial today,” he said.
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