A retired
senior military officer and one time governor of Kaduna State, Mouktar
Muhammed, is dead.
Mr.
Muhammed, a retired air vice marshal, died Sunday evening, according to a
Facebook announcement by his younger brother, Faruk Dalhatu.
PREMIUM
TIMES gathered that Mr. Muhammed died in a London hospital
Mr. Dalhatu,
who described the deceased as “patriarch of the Dalhatu family” gave the cause
of his death as cancer.
The retired
military officer was the first governor of Kaduna State after its creation in
1977 by the military administration of Olusegun Obasanjo.
He had
earlier served as the Minister of Housing, Urban Development and Environment
from 1976 to 1977, following the coup that brought Murtala Mohammed to power,
in which he played a role.
Mr. Muhammed
was famously head of one of the military tribunals that tried second republic
politicians suspected of corruption under the military administration of
Muhammadu Buhari, from1983 to 1985. Many of those politicians were sentenced to
decades in prison.
On toppling
Mr. Buhari in 1985, Mr. Muhammed had a short-lived stay in the coming Ibrahim
Babangida regime, due to his disagreement with the “palace coup” that ousted
Mr. Buhari.
From 2002,
he spearheaded activities of The Buhari Organisation, TBO, a political group
that championed the aspiration of Mr. Buhari to become Nigeria’s civilian
president.
He was, last
year, named as chairman of the governing council of the Ahmadu Bello
University, Zaria.
Until his
death, Mr. Muhammed, who held the title of Wazirin Dutse was deputy chairman of
the Board of Trustees of Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF.
He was also chairman
of Kano-based Freedom Radio.
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