Former governor of Yobe State, Bukar Abba Ibrahim, is dead.
He reportedly died in Saudi Arabia after a protracted illness at the age of 75.
Born in 1949, Bukar Abba Ibrahim was the governor of Yobe State from May 29, 1999 to May 29, 2007. He earlier served as the pioneer elected governor of the state from January 1992 to November 1993 in the aborted Third Republic.
In 2007, he was elected to the Senate to represent Yobe East. He ran for re-election in the 2011 Senatorial contest for Yobe East on the ANPP platform, and won until 2015 when he quit the Senate seat for Ibrahim Gaidam, also a former governor of Yobe State.
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