The mother of Nigeria’s late President, Umaru Musa Yar’adua, Hajia Dada is dead. She reportedly passed on at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Katsina State on Monday after a brief illness at the ripe age of 102 years.
The deceased centenarian was also the mother of late Major-General Musa Yar’adua and Senator Abdulaziz Musa Yar’adua, the current Chairman, Senate Committee on Army. Umaru Musa Yar’adua was Nigeria’s president from 2007 until his death in May 2010. He had previously the governor of Katsina State from 1999 to 2007.
The Yar’ adua senior was chief of staff during the military administration of Olusegun Obasanjo
Burial arrangement for the late Hajia Dada will be announced later by the family.
Another son, her third son, Abdulaziz Musa Yar’Adua, is the current senator representing Katsina central and a retired army colonel.
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In the buildup to the 2023 elections, presidential hopefuls, including Bola Tinubu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC); former Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo; former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar; and Peter Obi, candidate of the Labour Party (LP), visited the centenarian at the Yar’Adua family house in Katsina.
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