Former PDP chairman Bamanga Tukur dies at 90

Former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and salient Nigerian businessman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has died astatine the property of 90.

Tukur’s household confirmed to TRT Afrika that helium died on Saturday at his residence successful Abuja aft a prolonged illness.

His burial is expected to instrumentality spot on Saturday at the Lamido of Adamawa’s Palace successful Yola, Adamawa State.

The precocious person and businessman is survived by 17 children.

Tukur served arsenic politician of the erstwhile Gongola State, which was aboriginal divided into Adamawa and Taraba states, during Nigeria’s Second Republic.

He aboriginal served arsenic Minister of Industries nether the subject medication of General Sani Abacha and besides sought to contention the Nigerian presidency.

Tukur went connected to go National Chairman of the PDP, playing a salient relation successful the party’s enactment and Nigeria’s governmental affairs.

Former PDP president Bamanga Tukur dies astatine 90