Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State is bereaved. His foster father and former Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Education, Mallam Yahaya Hamza passed away in Kaduna on Tuesday after a brief illness.
A statement issued by El-Rufai's spokesman, Samuel Aruwan said that the governor
"will miss the wisdom and counsel of this great man who became a father to him and guided his steps with tender firmness,”
He said that the governor played Allah to grant the departed aljanah firdaus and the family, strength.
The one time chairman of West African Examinations Council, WAEC, and Secretary to Kaduna State Government is survived by many wives, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He was aged 80, having been born in 1935.
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