BREAKING: Mother of Missing Social Media Critic, Dadiyata, Is Dead

• The mother of Abubakar Idris, popularly known as Dadiyata, died at the 44 Nigerian Army Reference Hospital, Kaduna on Tuesday, April 19
• Aminu and Usman, the deceased's sons, confirmed the development, adding the she had been rushed to the hospital around midnight and later placed on oxygen
• The deceased's popular son and fearless social media critic, Dadiyata, has been missing since August 2019

Kaduna - The mother of Abubakar Idris, the missing social media critic popularly known as Dadiyata, has died at the age of 66.

Daily Trust reported that she died on Tuesday, April 19, at the 44 Nigerian Army Reference Hospital, Kaduna, where she was being treated.

Legit.ng gathers that the deceased's sons, Aminu and Usman, have confirmed the development.

They said she had been rushed to the hospital around midnight and later placed on oxygen as doctors battled to stabilise her.

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Usman said their late mother was battling an ulcer and high blood pressure.

He, however, said she was fine on Monday, April 18, and had visited several persons, including one of their relatives who was bereaved.

His words:

“She was ok when she went to bed. However, she woke up at midnight and she couldn’t talk, she became unconscious and was rushed to the hospital."

He said her janaizah prayer will hold after Asr prayer at the family residence at Gombe road following which she will be buried at the Tudun Wada burial ground in Kaduna.

Deceased's son Dadiyata still missing

Recall that the deceased’s popular son disappeared in the early hours of August 2, 2019, and all efforts to trace him have been fruitless up till date.

Dadiyata, who would have been 37 this year, was allegedly taken from his Barnawa home in Kaduna.

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Dadiyata not in our custody - DSS

In a previous report, the Department of State Services (DSS), denied allegations that Dadiyata was in their custody.

Reacting to a publication by Nigerian dailies that over 50 suspects including Dadiyata being held by the Service under excruciating conditions and "routinely tortured", the service said the allegations are spurious a deliberate campaign of calumny to undermine the DSS and cast it in bad light before the public.

Dadiyata was alleged to have been taken away by some men suspected to be officials of the DSS in Kaduna and has since not been heard of from friends or relatives.

Source: Legit.ng