BREAKING: Former INEC Chairman, Jega Loses Mother, Details Emerge

• The former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, has lost his mother
• Jega's mother, Hajiya Hauwa Kulu Muhammadu died after a brief illness in Abuja Friday night, August 16
• The former vice-chancellor of Bayero University, Kano, was INEC chairman, for 5 years - 2010 to 2015

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FCT, Abuja - The mother of the former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, is dead.

Hajiya Hauwa Kulu Muhammadu Jega died after a brief illness in Abuja Friday night, August 16.

As reported by Leadership, a family source said the funeral prayer for the deceased would hold at the National Mosque in Abuja this Saturday at 1:30 pm.

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Jega’s mother would be interred at Gudu Cemetery Abuja after the funeral prayer.

Prominent children of the deceased are popular journalist and syndicated newspaper columnist, Malam Mahmud Jega, and a former Executive Director of Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), Alhaji Abbas Jega.

Legit.ng recalls that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu unveiled Jega's appointment as the chairman of the Usmanu Danfodiyo University's governing council.

Jega's appointment was among the 155 list of others appointed as chairmen of the governing council of chairmen by President Tinubu.

Jega, former vice-chancellor of Bayero University, Kano, and one-time boss of INEC, was named co-chairman of the committee established to address obstacles to agricultural productivity in Nigeria.

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The committee is also saddled with opening up new opportunities which farmers, herders, and distributors in the livestock-farming value chain will benefit from.

Former Senate President Saraki's mother dies

Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that Chief Florence Morenike Saraki, the mother of Bukola Saraki, the former president of the Senate, died at the age of 89.

The former governor of Kwara state announced the death of his mother in a statement on Tuesday, June 18.

Saraki served as the president of the Senate between 2015 and 2019 and was a two-term governor of Kwara state from 2003 to 2011.

Source: Legit.ng