Kastina gov pays condolence visit to Yar’Adua’s family over matriarch’s death

The Katsina State Governor, Dikko Radda, has paid a condolence visit to the Yar’adua family in Katsina, late Monday.

This was revealed in a tweet by  his aide on Digital Media, Isah Miqdad, tweeting as #Miqdad_Jnr.

He wrote, “This evening, Governor Malam Dikko Umaru Radda of Katsina State, interrupted his official duties in Daura to pay a visit to the family of the late Hajiya Fatima Dada, the mother of former President Umaru Musa Yar’adua.

“The late Dada is scheduled to be laid to rest tomorrow morning by Islamic customs. The governor expressed his deepest sympathies to the grieving family and extended his heartfelt condolences.”

Dada Yar’adua, mother of former President, Umaru Yar’adua and a former Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters, Shehu Yar’adua, died at the age of 102.

PUNCH Online learnt that she died at the Federal Teaching Hospital in Katsina State on Monday evening.

Dada is revered as one of the few women to have birthed top politicians in Nigeria’s history, including Umaru, a former President and two-time governor of Katsina State; Shehu, who was the ex-Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters, under the military regime of former President Olusegun Obasanjo; and Abdulaziz, Chairman, Senate Committee on Army.

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